![]() And this one? Maybe fear of AIDS is the engine.įerrara's version is set on an Army base in the South, and told through the eyes of a teenage girl named Marti ( Gabrielle Anwar) who has moved there with her family. The second film seemed to signal the end of the flower people and the dawn of the Me Generation. The first film fed on the paranoia of McCarthyism. ![]() Since Jack Finney wrote his original novel in the 1940s, his vision of Pod People has been filmed three times: In 19 as "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," by Don Siegel and Philip Kaufman, and now simply as "Body Snatchers," by Abel Ferrara. And the classic story of the body snatchers taps into those fears at an elemental level. But they reflect a shadowy feeling which many people have from time to time. ![]() But what if everybody else only looks normal? What if, inside, they're something else altogether, and my world is a laboratory, and I am a specimen? These spells do not come often, nor do they stay long, nor do I take them seriously. I'll see them in a cold, objective light: "Who is this person - really?" Everything I know about others is based on trust, on the assumption that a "person" is inside them, just as a person clearly seems to be inside me. ![]() Sometimes I'll be looking at someone I know, and a wave of uncertainty will sweep over me. ![]()
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