Science Fiction on the other hand, takes a different approach to social commentaries, and it is within this distinction that science fiction and horror become different genres. Horror stays on the interpersonal level with its social commentaries, while science fiction takes on larger scale issues.
The film Brazil, which was made in 1985, foreshadows a time in which the government becomes so big, that it essentially becomes its own organism, feeding on the lives of its citizens. The story follows Sam Lowry, a man who after the accidental arrest and killing of Archibald Tuttle, is sent to rectify the error. Along the way he meets a beautiful woman named Jill, who after reporting the accidental killing of Tuttle, is named as a terrorist. Sam …show more content…
Take for example I am Legend, which is a story about the last man on Earth after a virus infects the population turning them into vampires. The book and subsequent film follows Robert Neville, who has not only lost his wife and daughter, but everyone he has ever known. We watch as Robert struggles to survive, while attempting to wipe out the vampire race, in the hope that there are other survivors that he doesn’t know about. The book and the film diverge in their telling of the ending, one choosing to end with the hope of a new society being born from the ashes of the previous world. The other choosing to end with our protagonist dying after the vampires revolt and create their own society. The film tries to appease the audience, while the book sticks to its metaphor of the end of the world. As Matheson intended it the apocalypse represents the contamination of society, specifically from the Cold …show more content…
They play with each other and and help each other grow and become more interesting. They both scare and entertain their audience. However, they are separate genres. They are separated because they choose different stories to tell. Horror remains personal, sticking to stories about the struggles of individual people. Science fiction tells the story of the group, telling stories in which no one person can truly change anything. They show how the individuals can get lost in the system, and how in the end it doesn’t truly matter. They scare us in a way that we can separate from our own lives, while horror shoves our deepest darkest fears in our faces. In the end they both show us the ugly that we would rather sweep under the rug, it merely comes down to which problem we want to face. Do we want to look at the problems we face as individuals? Or would we rather look at society as a whole? Either way looking at these truths can become
The film Brazil, which was made in 1985, foreshadows a time in which the government becomes so big, that it essentially becomes its own organism, feeding on the lives of its citizens. The story follows Sam Lowry, a man who after the accidental arrest and killing of Archibald Tuttle, is sent to rectify the error. Along the way he meets a beautiful woman named Jill, who after reporting the accidental killing of Tuttle, is named as a terrorist. Sam …show more content…
Take for example I am Legend, which is a story about the last man on Earth after a virus infects the population turning them into vampires. The book and subsequent film follows Robert Neville, who has not only lost his wife and daughter, but everyone he has ever known. We watch as Robert struggles to survive, while attempting to wipe out the vampire race, in the hope that there are other survivors that he doesn’t know about. The book and the film diverge in their telling of the ending, one choosing to end with the hope of a new society being born from the ashes of the previous world. The other choosing to end with our protagonist dying after the vampires revolt and create their own society. The film tries to appease the audience, while the book sticks to its metaphor of the end of the world. As Matheson intended it the apocalypse represents the contamination of society, specifically from the Cold …show more content…
They play with each other and and help each other grow and become more interesting. They both scare and entertain their audience. However, they are separate genres. They are separated because they choose different stories to tell. Horror remains personal, sticking to stories about the struggles of individual people. Science fiction tells the story of the group, telling stories in which no one person can truly change anything. They show how the individuals can get lost in the system, and how in the end it doesn’t truly matter. They scare us in a way that we can separate from our own lives, while horror shoves our deepest darkest fears in our faces. In the end they both show us the ugly that we would rather sweep under the rug, it merely comes down to which problem we want to face. Do we want to look at the problems we face as individuals? Or would we rather look at society as a whole? Either way looking at these truths can become