http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2013/10/toronto-international-film-festival-2013-gravity-reviewLink, if someone want to get angry. What an a-hole. ;<
So it's just my opinion of what SF is vs Encyclopedia-Britannicas'. I should give up right now and say: according to people wiser than me, Gravity is sf.But I will not. Earths orbit is just as normal enviroment as underwater, or high mountains, or large deserts. It shouldn't be considered as sf.
Why? Isn't people actually were in outer space? Isn't they floating around space shuttles, stations and satelites? Isn't story with floating debris technically impossible right now? Is in this movie anything that makes it impossible to happening right now in outer space?Or maybe yu're just ironic.
Why Gravity is different from Buried? Desloation, dealing with non movement, etc. One is set underground, other is set on Earths orbit. Both is fiction. So. Is Buried sf? If no, then why Gravity is sf?
I'm in a team 'Gravity is not a sf'. It has modern technology, even Cuaron says that they used a little obsolete spacewalking suits. So it is based on modern times, nothing was 'invented' just for the movie. Saying Gravity is sf is like saying f.e. Scorceses The Departed is sf. Just because.
http://variety.com/2013/film/news/alfonso-cuaron-returns-to-the-bigscreen-after-seven-years-with-gravity-1200596518/Article about making of this movie.