Film · Allied Artists · 1956
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
65Worth an evening.
Not for a small child. The scare is a loved face with nobody left inside it.
The review
What stayed with me was the sleeping. A doctor in a California town notices that people are being replaced by copies with no feeling. The copies are grown while the person sleeps. He cannot get the town to believe him. I won't describe the bodies. Not for a small child, and not something you shrug off because the effects look dated.
The fear is about losing the self, and it can be read from more than one side. I don't have to pick a side to feel it. Someone still walks and talks and isn't home. He does the looking a doctor is for, and the neighbors prefer the comfortable copy. If you watch it, talk after about who you would believe. The film does not promise you the town back.
Journal
Keep Invasion of the Body Snatchers in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.
The glance
Stewardship is the thin one.
What is left for the people who come after — a place, a craft, a name?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 7Industry
A doctor keeps looking when the town wants him to stop.
- 5Household
The swap happens in sleep, which is where a family is supposed to be safe.
- 6Piety
Feeling is what can still refuse, and the copies are life without it.
- 8Courage
He risks disbelief, and then replacement, to say the town is gone.
- 8Republic
He owes the neighbors a warning they will not hear.
- 6Temperance
It wants your dread, not a cheer, and it offers no toy to keep.
- 8Truth
The copies pass for true, and the bill is a self that does not return.
- 4Stewardship
If he fails, the town left standing is manners with no one inside.
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