L'Invasion des profanateurs de sépultures (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), Don Siegel, 1956 (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) A small town doctor noticed that many strange patients and "corpses" resembling living people suddenly appeared in the town. Following the investigation, he found that some giant pods appeared in many places including his own garden. These pods would hatch a "pea pod man" while the humans around him fell asleep, and gradually grew out of the characteristics of this person and possessed this person. Memory until he completely replaced this person. The doctor tried to seek help, only to realize that most of the people in the town had been replaced, so he took his girlfriend and began to escape. Their old friends who had been replaced by the "pea pods" chased them up and told them that the pods were from aliens, and that the replaced people would lose their emotions, leaving only simple rationality. They refused to be replaced, and had to continue to flee after treacherously killing the "Pod Man" friends. The local police have already begun to use trucks to transport the pods to surrounding towns... This film is classified in science fiction and horror films. It is considered a classic in both categories. It has to be remade almost every generation (1978-Invasion). of The Body Snatchers, 1993-Body Snatchers, 2007-The Invasion)...It can actually be seen as a low-cost film. There is no flying saucer, high-tech, and no dazzling and scary horror pictures. It depends entirely on the horror behind the daily life. At the end, the doctor’s story was finally believed, and the police started to take measures. It was obvious that the producer had forced it to prevent the ending from being too dark. The original ending scene would be that the doctor was unwilling to stop downloading on the highway. His people shouted hoarsely, You are the next... Metaphor for the totalitarian society on the other side of the Cold War? Metaphorical American society in which the individual is increasingly atomized? You can interpret it any way. In short, although not every horror film will repeat "how severely the identity of the American middle class in the 1950s and 1960s was anxious", it does feel as if too much of the talent and creativity of these directors are being explored. This kind of insecurity...
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