The Bourne Ultimatum

After watching a movie with your children or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in the home.

This movie features a hero who is able to kill with his bare hands, resulting in some very brutal confrontations and in one case, strangulation. Does the more “intimate” nature of the two men beating each other to death seem more or less bothersome to you than violence with an arms-distant weapon, like a gun?

How does this movie solicit sympathy toward the hero from the audience? Why is this empathetic attitude key to making this film work?