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discussion sheets Included in This Kit
The Truman Show
A man slowly realises his entire life is being broadcast as entertainment inside a constructed world.
Psychological themes: identity, surveillance, self-presentation, parasociality, reality under observation
Mean Girls
A new student is pulled into the shifting social hierarchy of high school popularity and aggression.
Psychological themes: status, conformity, peer influence, exclusion, reputation, group norms
The Breakfast Club
Five students from different cliques spend a Saturday detention together and slowly dismantle each other’s labels.
Psychological themes: stereotypes, social identity, self-disclosure, adolescent roles, group dynamics
Inside Out
A young girl’s inner emotional world is personified as she tries to cope with change, loss, and growing up.
Psychological themes: emotion, memory, development, internal conflict, emotional regulation
The Babadook
A grieving mother and her son are haunted by a monstrous presence that feels uncomfortably close to their own distress.
Psychological themes: grief, repression, fear, avoidance, symbolic threat, maternal strain
Pan’s Labyrinth
A young girl escapes into a fantasy world while living under the brutality of war and authoritarian control.
Psychological themes: trauma, escapism, childhood coping, fear, authoritarianism, symbolic resistance
Dumb and Dumber
Two men move through the world with extraordinary confidence and very little usable judgement.
Psychological themes: misplaced confidence, self-awareness, social misreading, poor decision-making, comic cognition
Nightcrawler
An ambitious outsider discovers that crime footage, media hunger, and moral emptiness can make a powerful combination.
Psychological themes: moral disengagement, ambition, manipulation, performative selfhood, media incentives
EdTV
An ordinary man becomes the star of a reality show and watches his life distort under constant public attention.
Psychological themes: surveillance, self-presentation, parasociality, identity under observation, media pressure
Little Miss Sunshine
A dysfunctional family travels together to support a child beauty pageant dream, revealing insecurities, failures, and affection along the way.
Psychological themes: family systems, self-worth, resilience, performance pressure, identity, coping with disappointment