Diverse Position Science Fiction

This week has been drastically different than most of the science fiction weeks. I think at this point in the genre artists wanted to make the material more relatable. I watched the movie Attack the Block and read the short story Bloodchild. Okay, so the reason I think this week is really different is because of Attack the Block. This movie presents the aliens in Britain in a place similar to Compton. The setting, characters, time period, and characteristics are all so normal to us. We are presented a couple hoodlum boys that live in the ghetto in London and the best part about it is they aren't good kids. They are making trouble and robbing people, but when the movie starts we cheer for them. They want to conquer these Aliens and they all are working together to get through this alien invasion. It seems really odd to be cheering for these kids, but how the movie is made we want them to succeed. There is a scene were they boys show up at a drug dealers house and the main character Moses picks up some pot to sell for him. I think this scene really specifies who these kids are. 

Anyways, the time period seems very current and relevant, which is really different for science fiction. Most of the science fiction stories are set way in the future or in the past, but aren't on earth. we are usually traveling somewhere made up. So the reason I think this week is really special for science fiction is because the story doesn't need to be placed in the future or out off earth. Attack the Block is really proved this.