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Today I Realized that I'm Surrounded By Pod People that Support Gavin Newsom “I’m not insane…at first glance everything looked the same, but something evil had taken possession of the town.”
The story begins with a psychiatrist, Dr. Hill, who is called to the emergency room of a California hospital, where a screaming man is being held in custody. Dr. Hill agrees to listen to his story.
The story begins with a psychiatrist, Dr. Hill, who is called to the emergency room of a California hospital, where a screaming man is being held in custody. Dr. Hill agrees to listen to his story.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers ( 1956) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Jimmy Grimmaldi was right to be afraid.
American director Don Siegel, who directed the 1956 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, stated he saw the film as a parable about the eroding sense of individualism in American life, stating:
"Many of my associates are certainly pods. They have no feelings. They exist, breathe, sleep. To be a pod means that you have no passion, no anger, the spark has left you...Of course, there's a very strong case for being a pod. These pods, who get rid of pain, ill health, and mental disturbances, are in a sense doing good. It happens to leave you in a very dull world, but that, by the way is the world most of us live in. It's the same as people who welcome going to prison. There's regimentment, a lack of having to make up your mind, face decisions...People are becoming vegetables. I don't know what the answer is except an awareness of it. That's what makes a picture like The Invasion of the Body Snatchers important".
"The pod people represent a completely regimented society. Metaphorically, they are so alike as "two peas in a pod" because they have been sapped of their emotional individuality. The vegetarian metaphor alliterizes Red scare rhetoric of the "growth" of Communism as well as the idea that revolutions are made by planting seeds.”
There is a scene where the pod people are assembled in the town square, where a loud speaker reads out the day's orders; it is the quintessential fifties image of socialism. And, of course, the simile that without freedom of thought people are...vegetables is a central theme of the narrative.
American director Don Siegel, who directed the 1956 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, stated he saw the film as a parable about the eroding sense of individualism in American life, stating:
"Many of my associates are certainly pods. They have no feelings. They exist, breathe, sleep. To be a pod means that you have no passion, no anger, the spark has left you...Of course, there's a very strong case for being a pod. These pods, who get rid of pain, ill health, and mental disturbances, are in a sense doing good. It happens to leave you in a very dull world, but that, by the way is the world most of us live in. It's the same as people who welcome going to prison. There's regimentment, a lack of having to make up your mind, face decisions...People are becoming vegetables. I don't know what the answer is except an awareness of it. That's what makes a picture like The Invasion of the Body Snatchers important".
"The pod people represent a completely regimented society. Metaphorically, they are so alike as "two peas in a pod" because they have been sapped of their emotional individuality. The vegetarian metaphor alliterizes Red scare rhetoric of the "growth" of Communism as well as the idea that revolutions are made by planting seeds.”
There is a scene where the pod people are assembled in the town square, where a loud speaker reads out the day's orders; it is the quintessential fifties image of socialism. And, of course, the simile that without freedom of thought people are...vegetables is a central theme of the narrative.
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