The conventions of this genre are....
"...usually scientific, visionary, comic-strip-like, and imaginative, and usually visualized through fanciful, imaginative settings, expert film production design, advanced technology gadgets (i.e., robots and spaceships), scientific developments, or by fantastic special effects. Sci-fi films are complete with heroes, distant planets, impossible quests, improbable settings, fantastic places, great dark and shadowy villains, futuristic technology and gizmos, and unknown and inexplicable forces. Many other SF films feature time travels or fantastic journeys, and are set either on Earth, into outer space, or (most often) into the future time. Quite a few examples of science-fiction cinema owe their origins to writers Jules Verne and H.G. Wells."
Our film opening complies with these conventions in that our character faces an impossible quest of rewinding time. He is confronted by a 'villainous' character in dark and shadowy setting and the physical rewinding of this is futuristic and unexpected. This is similar to other british drama works including...
- Misfits
- Dr Who
- Primeval
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