Sci-Fi Blog Starts Now

I do not have a great knowledge of Sci-Fi films which is why my collage looks a tad basic.

The film ‘The Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ (which from now will be called ‘TIOTBS’) deals with the issue of a plant type that copies a person exactly and takes over that person's life, killing the original in the process. Whereas ‘The Invasion’ focusses its self with an alien bug that takes over a person’s body, repressing their personality until the bug has left.

The interesting fact is that, in my opinion, the only similarity is that a man and a woman are in danger but eventually one of them gets taken anyway. However there are several differences. The one that I find most intriguing is at the end of the films. In ‘TIOTBS’ at the end, the reassurance to the audience that everything is going to be alright is portrayed more subtlety. The people in charge say that they believe him and wonder away. Whereas in ‘The Invasion’ the entire horrible business is forgotten about as, handily, a doctor has invented a vaccine that restores everything to how it was before and the only people who remember it all are the people who lived through it.

One other thing that annoys me is in ‘The Invasion’ all of the main characters survive in perfect health. This is one reason why ‘TIOTBS’ is a better film because most of the main characters in that perish in the fight.

This is one example why Sci-Fi films have changed. In the fifties it was startling when any main character dies. It set a standard that at least a main character should die/perish/be eaten/fall of the Empire State Building in a film.

This is one reason why I have been on and on for years that the main characters should die. I’m not saying all of them but at least Daniel Craig for heaven’s sake! It would make the story so much more believable if people bitten by the bug died and poor Nicole Kidman had to mingle with these walking HALs until she and her son made to the army base.

The trouble is that Sci-Fi films have to unrealistic yet believable. The clue is in the title: Science Fiction. And that is one reason why the best science fiction film is Titanic. Think about it…

In real life the ship Titanic sailed bow first into an iceberg, it sank and hundreds of people died; fact. So that is the Science part: boat crash, boat break, boat sink. The fiction part is that Jack’s and Rose’s relationship never happened. Yes they were real people on the ship and yes Jack did die in real life but their relationship was entirely fictional thanks to Cameron and his production staff. Thus proving that Titanic is the best Sci-Fi film; one because the boat Titanic actually sank and two because it has a fictional relationship between two characters who never existed.

To prove that there is science in the film Titanic below is a video from the director of the film showing us an exact digital replica sinking in the very same way.

Themes found in ‘TIOTBS’ and ‘The Invasion’ are:

• Science

• Social Concerns

• Humanity Vs Science

• Dystopia

Here’s something that I just want to add, I say that a ‘Zombie’ apocalypse is impossible and people reply “how do you know?” Well I’ll tell you. With a basic amount of medical science and ‘evidence’ from the internet that these ‘Zombies’ have a much lower IQ level and find a basic, most sustainable food source they can (brains). In this case then would it mean that people with Down Syndrome, if their carer was taken away from them, would form this zombie-like quota? (Not eat brains obviously but a simple and abundant food.) Oh I’m sorry, to I prove your argument to be wrong? 

Such a pity.

For 'TIOTBS' the explicit fears are: Well being of himself, well being of his companion, well being of everyone, not being understood, falling asleep.
The implicit fears are: Society, what we will all become (drones doing nothing good).

For 'The Invasion' the explicit fears are: Society, cherished ones, constantly being watched, the demise of the world, how susceptible we are, will it happen again.

The implicit fears are: Society, what we will all become (drones doing nothing good), how susceptible we are.