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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
« on: October 29, 2017, 05:32:40 pm »
From TCM:

Possession of ordinary people by alien entities, whether gods or demons, figures in the oldest myths. When the homogenization and mechanization of the modern world is added to that, the fear is compounded.

From Books vs Films:

[W]e're dealing with the universal fear of loss of identity, which can materialize in all kinds of narratives, including ones that deal with insanity, or the inability to recognize thoughts and behaviors as your own. We as humans don't like the idea of losing (or having stripped away) the elements that make us who we are, the individual mind and consciousness that separates one person from another.

Siegel denies any agenda whatsoever, insisting the narrative examines the loss of one's heart, soul, and individuality, regardless of any socio-political origins. According to the director in an interview with American Cinema in 1975 (reprinted at Exclamation Mark):

I think that the world is populated by pods and I wanted to show them. I think so many people have no feeling about cultural things, no feeling of pain, of sorrow...

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I'm going to think about this, but, as usual I will just be leaving a note here so I can go think about something else.  My apologies.

Here is a paper I want to read so I am leaving a link:  Physicians, Society, and the Science Fiction Genre in the Film Versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers: or Doctors with a Serious Pod Complex  (WARNING: It's a 104 page paper.)

« Last Edit: October 29, 2017, 07:41:27 pm by Non Serviam »
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