Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Analysis

The film , invasion of the body snatchers, directed by John Siegel, portrays the fear of the spread of communism in the 1950's. This movie being written at the peak of the Cold War and the Red Scare, displays how many Americans we're worried communism would eventually reach the US. In Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Miles and Becky try their hardest to resist the evils of their replicated self but soon, Becky falls asleep and wakes up as "one of us". Like the pod taking over Becky, several Americans feared this government centralized custom would soon come to infiltrate the American government. Miles and Becky are living in a small town in California when suddenly they find pods looking exactly like each of them growing in Miles's greenhouse. Little did they know, each person in their town had a pod growing of their replication self. These pods are mirroring the promptly spreading communism and Miles and Becky are representing the United States are they are trying to do everything they can to exclude them selves from communism. In their escape from the town, with endless running from the now emotionless people, Charlie exclaims, "Give up! You can't get away from us! We're not …show more content…
Becky soon gets so tired that she can not run anymore. So, Miles has to pick her up and carry her running for a longways until they find a place to hide. Miles continues to emphasize to Becky that if she falls asleep , she will then fall to the emotionless state like the rest of their town just did. But she did, and Miles knew right then and there he was in trouble: I've been afraid a lot of times in my life. But I didn't know the meaning of fear until I had kissed Becky." Miles knew that when Becky woke up she would be turned into "one of us" and have no emotion. Miles is representing the only capitalistic democratic country left as all of the other people have been pervaded by the giant pods,