Review Questions for Central Station:
 

Read the interviews with director Walter Salles in the class web page and then answer one of the following questions:

1. How is the construction of national/collective and individual identities represented in the film? How do the cinematography and the mise en scene emphasize this?

2. Examine the mythic aspects of the journey(s) in the film and the different real and symbolic quests and discoveries, as well as the displacements and relocations.

3. What is the role of religion and religious imagery in this film? What do you think it wants to communicate? How do they symbolize the major themes of the film?