Fiction and SciFi

Fiction comes from the latin word fictum meaning 'created' so from this we know that fiction is of total opposite of reality as it is created and not true at all. There are three main elements of Fiction which is the Plot, Characters and place/time

Plot which is the storyline
Characters such as the protagonist, antagonist and supporting characters
Place/time is the era where the story take place

Science Fiction means to have a science base like alien worlds, time travel, spacecrafts and robots etc. Films that are Science Fiction are usually base on political issues or social issues.

Movie example of aliens is the show District 9 where the main character wikus contacted the virus and is beginning to mutate into an alien seek refuge in district 9 and and found Christopher and Wikus decides to help him because christopher promise to cure him if he help him. Canister was successfully stolen and people from the MNU has been pursueing them but later learnt that christopher need to go back to the mothership and come back 3 years later to help him. Feeling anxious and angry he decides to take off to the mother ship but were hit by a rocket laucher, in the end decides to help christopher board the mothership and kill off all MNU who is pursueing christopher from reaching the motherboard.

Movies example for time travel like Click where this guy has this super cool remote controller and is able to fast forward time, Butterfly Effect where the guy go back time to change his past unhappy events but wasn't happy so he went back again however everytime he changes events from the past he made it worse when he comes back to the future.

Anime too has time travel like the recent ones i've watch called The girl who leap through time, its about this girl who met this guy that comes from the future and there is only a limited no. of time he can leap through time and an accident occured when she hit a nut looking object and has the ability to leap through time as well so her last leap was to go back to the past inorder to help the guy she likes that comes from the future to leap back to his own world.

Here are the different kinds of conflicts that you can see in movies/books

Characters vs Self: this cases in the characters has to find out who he/she is and come to realise it themselves. one movie example where everyone might know is Resident Evil Alice Project where she is made with duplicate clones and every now and then the clone will wake up and escape, well not easily because they set traps in the laboratory and everytime the clone died she will be added to the trash full of 'alice' dead bodies. But something surprising was everytime the previous alice died the next one will know where are the traps are and are able to dodge it they didn't espect the clones to have a little of the real alice's memories.

Person vs person: This case is quite similar because its just about one human fighting the other, be it a protagonist vs antagonist or vampires Vs the werewolves

Person vs. Society: this is often from the main character's point of view as how he fights the society while the other party will feel that this is just like a person vs. person case. One movie example would be the show Matrix where we all know that the main character Neo fights against the Agents.

Person vs. Nature: this is something like a person fight against the nature like natural disaster. Movies like The Day After Tomorrow, The Day the Earth moved, Knowing, 2012, Tornado, Twister etc. These shows are quite scary and some people will just leave the cinema when the show just boardcast half way because it's really something that people will not wish to see maybe because they have been through it and didn't want to remember it. Even shows that are related to zoombies are also categorise in it like I am Legend, Qurantine, Daybreakers, Doomsday etc.

Person vs. Supernatural: Example of movies like ghost whisperer, six sense, ghostbuster, Supernatural etc. The word Supernatural comes from the latin word supra "above" and natura "nature". The supernatural meant that it is something unexplainable by natural law or phenomena.

Person vs. Machine/Technology: Movies that are closely related to humans and machines like the iRobot, Artificial Intelligents (AI), Terminator and Star Wars

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