Watch this video: https://vimeo. com/251765932 Answer these questions:
1. Summarize the story's plot so someone who didn't watch the video would know what happened.
2. This episode, based on a short story by Charles Beaumont, was written by John Tamerlin. What was the main point/message do you think they wanted to share with the audience?
3. Give a piece of evidence that supports your main point/theme in question 2.
4. Marilyn says, "I don't feel like smiling all of the time. Sometimes, I want to cry or frown." Is this a healthy mindset? Explain your answer.
5. If you were given the task of making a beverage called "Instant Smile", what ingredients would you use in your product's recipe?
6. It's mentioned that both Marilyn and her deceased father had above-average intelligence. They were both readers in a world where books, seen as "subversive", have been banned. What message can you take from these facts? Could book banning happen in our country?
7. At the end, the narrator says, "Portrait of a young lady in love- with herself. Improbable? Perhaps. But in an age of plastic surgery, bodybuilding, and an infinity of cosmetics, let us hesitate to say impossible." Explain why he calls the three self-improvement items "strange blessings."
8. This episode first aired in 1964. Do you think that young people feel a similar pressure to conform to a specific set of physical attractiveness standards, or do you think we evolved past this? Explain your thoughts.