Prisilia: One of the first examples of real panic and anxiety is when the little boy Jimmy starts running away from home and Dr. Bennell almost runs him over. He sees how distressed the boy is and wonders what ails him. The anxiety taking over Jimmy can be better seen when his grandmother drags him into the doctor’s office and when the boy states that he does not wish to go home because the person who looks like his mother is not his mother. Wilma is another character that is afflicted with paranoia when she suspects her uncle of being an impostor. “He looks, acts, sounds, and remembers just like Uncle Ira.” This particular line is important because during the Second Red Scare, people began suspecting each other and family members of being
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It presents communism as a disease that spreads quickly as the pods infects their host until it transforms, when the transition is completed, they are identical to the person they were in every aspect except for the way they think. When I saw the movie I fell very related. Coming from a communist country I can tell you by experience, communism is a doctrine that once it gets into people’s brains it’s hard to establish a rational conversation with them because all the opinion they have is what they have been taught without further individual analysis. I saw this very well represented in the film as the pod-people seem emotionless, with no individuality, but with objectives. There is a part where Dr. Kibner tells Elizabeth “there’s no need for hate now. Or love”, hate and love are the two strongest feelings that human is entitled to have as individual. I translated this line as if he was saying “you are not free to feel that anymore”.
Isabel: The pod people are uncanny in many ways. The uncanny is defined as the return of the repressed. The pod people are not just a monstrous alien with tons of razor sharp teeth, instead they are regular people. They interact in a different manner from the normal people but they are the same shape, form, and look of who they have cloned. To others, the pod people are regular everyday human beings. However, they are uncanny because they are unnatural, bizarre, and abnormal. They are a monster disguising themselves as an everyday human
It presents communism as a disease that spreads quickly as the pods infects their host until it transforms, when the transition is completed, they are identical to the person they were in every aspect except for the way they think. When I saw the movie I fell very related. Coming from a communist country I can tell you by experience, communism is a doctrine that once it gets into people’s brains it’s hard to establish a rational conversation with them because all the opinion they have is what they have been taught without further individual analysis. I saw this very well represented in the film as the pod-people seem emotionless, with no individuality, but with objectives. There is a part where Dr. Kibner tells Elizabeth “there’s no need for hate now. Or love”, hate and love are the two strongest feelings that human is entitled to have as individual. I translated this line as if he was saying “you are not free to feel that anymore”.
Isabel: The pod people are uncanny in many ways. The uncanny is defined as the return of the repressed. The pod people are not just a monstrous alien with tons of razor sharp teeth, instead they are regular people. They interact in a different manner from the normal people but they are the same shape, form, and look of who they have cloned. To others, the pod people are regular everyday human beings. However, they are uncanny because they are unnatural, bizarre, and abnormal. They are a monster disguising themselves as an everyday human