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1) The film's plot is about liberals hunting conservatives. So does that mean it is an anti-conservative film? Is it an anti-liberal film? Or, is it attempting to do something else within the conservative vs. liberal mythology? 

2. What do you think Scott means when he writes, "There's also a lot in the movie about how online hysteria bleeds into reality, which makes it seem at once prescient and redundant"?

3. In what way does Scott say this film is similar to Jordan Peele's Get Out?

4. Scott says, "Rage — shared by characters on both sides, even as they direct it at each other — is what The Hunt is all about." But he also says that, Crystal, the perceived central character, "isn't like the others" and that she "seems to carry a different kind of anger." What do you think is the source of her anger?

5. Two of the last three sentences of the article, really serve as Scott's thesis: "What The Hunt expresses — as distinct from what it depicts — isn't vengeful intolerance or self-pitying resentment, but frustration. It amounts to a protest against the hyper-politicization of everything, an attempt to reclaim popular culture as a demilitarized zone in the midst of our collective rhetorical forever war." Remember, the conventions of a newspaper article are different than an essay; your thesis would be at the end of the introduction. Re-state Scott's thesis in your own words, as if it were your thesis at the end of your introduction.