Super 8,
de J. J. Abrams

Introduction

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Synopsis :

During the summer holidays of 1979, a group of kids from Lilian, Ohio, make a zombie movie for a film festival using a Super8 light camera. They write the scenario, dress up, play the parts, shoot on location. On a night they are filming outdoors, a spectacular train accident happens next to them. They escape the explosions but they feel something has escaped from the train that is threatening and alien. The air force intervenes very soon and the peace of their home city is badly disrupted. The abandoned camera has kept a record…

Interest of the film :

A nostalgic flashback to a time when children used neither the Internet nor mobile phones, description of a working class city in Ohio, the making of a no budget amateur film with ambitions, children relationships with friends but also adults, fathers and children, inspiring tale about how ordinary people react and cope when confronted with an improbable crisis situation, also a fable about misunderstandings when meeting with strangers, an inspiring tale of courage.

Analyse de l'œuvre

Dossier pédagogique

Propositions du CRDP de l'Académie de Strasbourg pour étudier le film en classes de Troisième et de Seconde.

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