If it is not qualified purely as a science fiction film, it is only because of the political metaphor

Leo 2022-03-21 09:02:10

From the perspective of pure science fiction, this film has the following bugs:

1. The film does not explain how the body's body is perfectly disposed of after the magic flower occupied the body. 2. In the later stage of the film, as long as you fall asleep, you can change your mind in a dream. This is how the heroine is controlled. That is to say, there is no need for the magic flower to replace the main body, it is enough to replace the thoughts in the head. Then why does the magic flower spend a lot of time on pods? 3. The magic flower can be deceived by the male and female protagonists who pretend to have empty eyes. The alien creatures don't have a way to identify the same kind. They need to look at the expressions and dialogues like a human to know if they are the same? ! 4. Those who are controlled by the magic flower directly confess their identity in the later stage, so that they can control some people in a short period of time, and they will definitely be discovered and destroyed in the long run. It is better to keep concealing their alien magic flower identity. In addition, the magic flower cannot effectively distinguish whether the other party is also of the same kind, and it is easy to infiltrate the real human being and be disintegrated from the inside.

The existence of these bugs makes people worry about how this stupid alien magic flower came to earth alive. If a sci-fi film cannot be logically self-consistent, it will be pure nonsense, or simply called magic fantasy. The reason why this film is outstanding is completely because of his unique political metaphor

Of course, aside from the plot, the casting of the film and the acting skills of the actors are quite good, and the black and white film also feels like going back to the last century

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers quotes

  • Dr. Miles J. Bennell: This is the oddest thing I've ever heard of. Let's hope we don't catch it. I'd hate to wake up some morning and find out that you weren't you.

    Becky Driscoll: [laughs] I'm not the high school kid you used to romance, so how can you tell?

    Dr. Miles J. Bennell: You really want to know?

    Becky Driscoll: Mmm-hmm.

    [Miles kisses Becky]

    Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Mmmm, you're Becky Driscoll, all right!

  • Jack Belicec: Stop trying to rationalize everything, will ya? Let's face it, we have a mystery on our hands!

    Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman: Sure you have. A real one! Whose body was it, and where is it now? A completely normal mystery. Whatever it is, it's well within the bounds of human experience, and I don't think you ought to make any more of it.

    Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Look, I wouldn't if I hadn't looked in Becky's cellar! How do you explain away the body I saw there?

    Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman: I don't think you saw one there.

    Dr. Miles J. Bennell: You don't think I saw one here, either?

    Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman: I know you did because three others saw it too.

    Dr. Miles J. Bennell: But I dreamed up the second one?

    Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman: Doctors can have hallucinations too.