Body Snatchers (1993)

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   Nickhowe

   Great acting, some creepy scenes with an interesting setting, and a hard critique of US military hegemony! Love it. 4 months 1 week ago
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   Siskoid

   Abel Ferrara's version of (Invasion of the) Body Snatchers is more directly a remake of the 1950s original - takes place on an army base and so on - than my 1978 favorite, and struggles to replace the Cold War paranoia of the first film with something clear and distinct. A frequent problem with early 90s fare after the Soviet Union's collapse - who's our enemy now? A more subtle answer can ultimately be found in the film's character moments rather than its plot. In the teenage lead, we find a natural rebelliousness, and in the chopper pilot she falls for, the idea that soldiers repress their feelings about killing, and so on. And so the enemy is conformity, as simple as that, which of course the pod people have always been a symbol of. Or not conformity exactly, but authority figures who would force that conformity on you. But where the original movie presented a bad conformity (Communism) and a good conformity (McCarthyism) without seeing the irony, this Body Snatchers is more philosophical in approach. Much of this comes to mind after it's all over, since on the surface, it's just an alien invasion movie with interesting prosthetic effects, given an extra frisson by the participation of a young child. The brother-sister relationship is in fact a highlight. Can't top the 1978 version, but I would still rank it above the dated original. 2 years 6 months ago
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   adastras

   i actually liked the matrix bros movie better then this one, even if it strayed farther from the original story. 13 years 2 months ago

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