You will be the next ...
psychiatric manuals define Capgras syndrome as a disorder psychiatric in which the affected person believes that an acquaintance has been replaced by an identical double of everything. Good horror movie buff, upon hearing this description of a medical condition existing in reality, certainly not able to avoid a chill in his mind while the image is drawn in black and white, a giant bean pod playing a starring role in one of the most disturbing films of the genre. As you no doubt have guessed from the moment you start talking about double, let's talk about Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
As usual, here playing warn that we uncover details of the plot of the film.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956 directed by Don Siegel is based on a serialized novel written by Jack Finney in 1954, The Body Snatchers. Kevin McCarthy stars as Dr. Miles Bennell, a family physician in Santa Mira, a small town in California, a typical provincial place where nothing ever happens like that both the perpetrators of the horror genre. Fresh from a conference, Dr. Bennell will find a barrage of cases of people who seem to suffer from the condition that I highlighted at the beginning. In the small town also seems to float a foreign environment. However, it gives more importance, merely to divert these patients to a psychiatrist confidence. So the film takes place without too much upheaval, until you see the corpse. His face was expressionless
with fingerprints erased, the foreign body is found in the house of a friend of the doctor, and marks a turning point in the film. From its appearance, the tension will increase, especially given that the body is revived, and later the same doctor is another of these bodies in the basement of the house of his former girlfriend. It seems that the action breaks loose. But soon the figure of the psychiatrist to bring order. Everything has been an episode of hysteria. There was nothing particularly odd in the first corpse, and as the second, only existed in the minds of witnesses. With daylight, indeed, everything seems back to normal, and even patients affected by the strange syndrome begin to recover. But all is apparently clear. You are about to go on stage one of the protagonists, surely the most memorable icon of this movie: giant seed pods.
A round of applause for our guest of honor, please.
Indeed, when the doctor and his friends are celebrating what looks like to their problems with a very American barbecue in the garden, the doctor, while looking for something to kerosene to light the barbecue rebel for such a sin against the palate of its guests, the doctor is definitely a creditor of the just punishment of being assassinated and replaced by a double-discover the terrifying giant vegetables, and all are witnesses to how they sprout mysterious corpses. The doctor tries to give the warning, but all their efforts do not go beyond the operator of the telephone. That's when the story reveals that the double is not a paranoid delusion, but a frightening reality, and that these mysterious beings control the city.
From this is when the film overflows with an apotheosis of pure paranoia. No one is legit. Everyone can be part of the conspiracy. The characters are driven to a constant flight, as they witness and the double came out of the plant are preparing to invade the surrounding villages. In addition, they must struggle against sleep, it is precisely for this when copies emerged from the pods copied the memory of their victims and live. In the end, only the doctor will be pursued by all the people. The movie should end with the doctor Benell in middle of the highway, shouting "you will be next" to drivers who refused to stop, but this ending was too pessimistic for the production, which imposed a more hopeful end, which shows a fortuitous accident that the story that has received raving mad as the police have picked up in the middle of the highway was real and can occur at the alarm time.
Final spoiler.
Many people noted as a defect of this film that at no time explaining how phishers get rid of the original once the copy is completed. But for me this is not a failure but a success of the film. Trying to explain this could divert the psychological tension of the film to a gruesome scene and certainly not credible. And basically, what we care if the double break down, eat or simply buried in the garden to their victims? It is enough that the discreetly out of the way and continue with the story.
Undoubtedly the highlight of this movie is the feeling, the aura of pure paranoia that envelops the viewer. An impression that is far from being an innocent amusement. Do not forget that this film was released in 1956 and the McCarthyism , although gradually declining, was still in the memory. Thus, it is difficult to tell exactly double those devoid of emotion, ready to conquer first the city and then the world, are an obvious metaphor of the fifth column under the command of Moscow, brainwashed, to be discovered in time, before you turn into something inhuman. If you have to be alert, suspicious of your neighbors, your relatives ... could be zombies in the service of Red Power. Again, the Communists have come from outer space to tear a chill.
This movie has been made so far three remakes , a very decent 1977, by Philip Kauffman , another forgettable in 1993, by Abel Ferrara , and more Recent 2007, by Oliver Hirschbiegel . But it is certainly original, with its black and white and vegetable giant papier-mache, which has left a deeper impression on the fans of the genre. A movie that does not pass the time, and that even today, still inspire awe.
Just for today. I hope you have fun, and remember, always watch your neighbors. May not be what they seem ...
This article was originally written for the site on 28-03-2007 Mondofriki.com, and revised and updated with new data for publication on this blog
psychiatric manuals define Capgras syndrome as a disorder psychiatric in which the affected person believes that an acquaintance has been replaced by an identical double of everything. Good horror movie buff, upon hearing this description of a medical condition existing in reality, certainly not able to avoid a chill in his mind while the image is drawn in black and white, a giant bean pod playing a starring role in one of the most disturbing films of the genre. As you no doubt have guessed from the moment you start talking about double, let's talk about Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
As usual, here playing warn that we uncover details of the plot of the film.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956 directed by Don Siegel is based on a serialized novel written by Jack Finney in 1954, The Body Snatchers. Kevin McCarthy stars as Dr. Miles Bennell, a family physician in Santa Mira, a small town in California, a typical provincial place where nothing ever happens like that both the perpetrators of the horror genre. Fresh from a conference, Dr. Bennell will find a barrage of cases of people who seem to suffer from the condition that I highlighted at the beginning. In the small town also seems to float a foreign environment. However, it gives more importance, merely to divert these patients to a psychiatrist confidence. So the film takes place without too much upheaval, until you see the corpse. His face was expressionless
with fingerprints erased, the foreign body is found in the house of a friend of the doctor, and marks a turning point in the film. From its appearance, the tension will increase, especially given that the body is revived, and later the same doctor is another of these bodies in the basement of the house of his former girlfriend. It seems that the action breaks loose. But soon the figure of the psychiatrist to bring order. Everything has been an episode of hysteria. There was nothing particularly odd in the first corpse, and as the second, only existed in the minds of witnesses. With daylight, indeed, everything seems back to normal, and even patients affected by the strange syndrome begin to recover. But all is apparently clear. You are about to go on stage one of the protagonists, surely the most memorable icon of this movie: giant seed pods.
A round of applause for our guest of honor, please.
Indeed, when the doctor and his friends are celebrating what looks like to their problems with a very American barbecue in the garden, the doctor, while looking for something to kerosene to light the barbecue rebel for such a sin against the palate of its guests, the doctor is definitely a creditor of the just punishment of being assassinated and replaced by a double-discover the terrifying giant vegetables, and all are witnesses to how they sprout mysterious corpses. The doctor tries to give the warning, but all their efforts do not go beyond the operator of the telephone. That's when the story reveals that the double is not a paranoid delusion, but a frightening reality, and that these mysterious beings control the city.
From this is when the film overflows with an apotheosis of pure paranoia. No one is legit. Everyone can be part of the conspiracy. The characters are driven to a constant flight, as they witness and the double came out of the plant are preparing to invade the surrounding villages. In addition, they must struggle against sleep, it is precisely for this when copies emerged from the pods copied the memory of their victims and live. In the end, only the doctor will be pursued by all the people. The movie should end with the doctor Benell in middle of the highway, shouting "you will be next" to drivers who refused to stop, but this ending was too pessimistic for the production, which imposed a more hopeful end, which shows a fortuitous accident that the story that has received raving mad as the police have picked up in the middle of the highway was real and can occur at the alarm time.
Final spoiler.
Many people noted as a defect of this film that at no time explaining how phishers get rid of the original once the copy is completed. But for me this is not a failure but a success of the film. Trying to explain this could divert the psychological tension of the film to a gruesome scene and certainly not credible. And basically, what we care if the double break down, eat or simply buried in the garden to their victims? It is enough that the discreetly out of the way and continue with the story.
Undoubtedly the highlight of this movie is the feeling, the aura of pure paranoia that envelops the viewer. An impression that is far from being an innocent amusement. Do not forget that this film was released in 1956 and the McCarthyism , although gradually declining, was still in the memory. Thus, it is difficult to tell exactly double those devoid of emotion, ready to conquer first the city and then the world, are an obvious metaphor of the fifth column under the command of Moscow, brainwashed, to be discovered in time, before you turn into something inhuman. If you have to be alert, suspicious of your neighbors, your relatives ... could be zombies in the service of Red Power. Again, the Communists have come from outer space to tear a chill.
This movie has been made so far three remakes , a very decent 1977, by Philip Kauffman , another forgettable in 1993, by Abel Ferrara , and more Recent 2007, by Oliver Hirschbiegel . But it is certainly original, with its black and white and vegetable giant papier-mache, which has left a deeper impression on the fans of the genre. A movie that does not pass the time, and that even today, still inspire awe.
Just for today. I hope you have fun, and remember, always watch your neighbors. May not be what they seem ...
This article was originally written for the site on 28-03-2007 Mondofriki.com, and revised and updated with new data for publication on this blog
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