Summer Wars Screening and Discussion Panel This Friday

Join our DMA students for a screening of Summer Wars this Friday in Becker Hall’s screening room. Stick around afterwards for a discussion panel about family, forgiveness, and the future of technology.

Summer Wars is an animated science fiction film from studio MadHouse released in 2009. It explores themes of family, lying, forgiveness, and the good, bad, and ugly sides of technology. The protagonist, a young mathlete named Kenji Koiso, must navigate the intricacies of a new family as well as stop a rogue AI from destroying the virtual world upon which their real world relies.

This film is rated PG but contains Language, Incidental Smoking, Action/Violence, Mild Thematic Material, and Some Suggestive Content.