Meet the Sci-Fi vision of the suburbs!

X-Files, Men in Black and Gattaca … Everybody knows about these names. You don’t? Then ask a teenager and you will quickly get the answer. They are all titles of famous science fiction films or series.

All science fiction movies share several characteristics, the necessary ingredients which will draw the viewer’s attention. One of them is the presence of real characters, normal people in unreal environment. It allows the viewer to identify himself/herself to his/her hero. It is not by chance that the main character is always a human. It is only the world which he/she evolves in that is strange, either completely futuristic or crowded with aliens or giant insects. That way, the person who watches the film can imagine that he/she is actually saving the world from an alien invasion or fighting enormous spiders.

Another essential feature of a good science fiction movie is mystery. Have you noticed that, after watching any science fiction film, there is always something that you don’t completely understand? It is done on purpose to let your imagination run wild. The fact that there is no answer makes you think that, after all, what you have seen is not totally impossible to happen one day or another.

An that is why this kind of movies is so popular among young people. Their imagination is generally much bigger than the imagination of older people. They are often less reluctant to saying “this is impossible, it cannot happen”, compared with adults whose rational mind is obstacle to enjoying this type of movies.