Can Thor: Ragnarok Be Classified As A Science Fiction Movie?

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Harvey Make-up Assignment for Digital Video

Subject:
Can “Thor: Ragnarok” be classified as a science fiction movie? Yes or no, justify your choice.
Response:

“Thor: Ragnarok” is a farce.

Farce (färs) noun a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. (had to make sure I was using it correctly)

That said and out of the way, an argument can be made either way. After poking around numerous sites for a literal or definitive definition, I came to the conclusion there is not one answer.

Vivian Carol Sobchack (American cinema/media theorist and cultural critic) stated:

Roughly translated from the five-dollar words and as I understand it, science

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