One of my first memories of horror movies, was watching with my brothers The Invasion of Body Snatchers at the age of six.
The movie portrays an extra-terrestrial invasion in a fictional town in California. Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of reproducing a duplicate replacement copy of each human. Each pod human assimilates the physical characteristics, memories, and personalities of each sleeping person placed near it with one exception, these duplicates, however, are devoid of all human emotion, like people with botox.
Today, besides still having issues eating peas, I have realized that the movie, based on a novel of Jack Finney, was a clear premonition of today's society. When Finney wrote his novel, cable TV was still on its beginnings ( in 1952 only 14,000 people have access to cable TV in the US ) so he needed to use a more familiar way to convey the risk of an alien invasion, so he choose peas pods, which it was something present in all American homes at the time, so people could really relate to that.
As usual, human race never learns ( how otherwise we could have endured so many Tom Cruise movies ) and we have not been able to stop the invasion.
In a world where most people don't cook anymore and rely on pre-packed or take away food, pea pods where not an option anymore, so Aliens had to adapt to became creative till they found the only thing present in every home nowadays: a Netflix subscription.
Netflix is the perfect brainwashing machine. Under the illusion of cool and trendy shows, all of us are carefully guided towards herd thinking. We all now believe Tiger King is innocent and Carole Baskin killed her husband.
It does not matter that I have no interest in American politics. Every time I turn Netflix on, I have to see Michelle's Obama Becoming in front page. I am seriously considering leaving the documentary running while going to the shops, but I believe they will somehow track my phone and realize I am cheating. Besides even if I see it, I will then have to endure right after Beyoncé's homecoming one and if that was not enough Taylor's Miss Americana. By the way I wonder why they didn't allow her to use a gerund on her title, although judging by her last 2 albums she is lucky to have a documentary at all. That is probably why she become an activist all of the sudden, to hide her declining music.
You don't have to think anymore, Netflix thinks for you. It offers you the shows you should see , the causes you need to fight for and in case you are not politically correct enough it suggests to watch a certain show again.
The ultimate goal is to created an alienated society, where we all have to think the same way and there is no real discussion anymore. You are pro Tiger or Pro Carol. You are with us or against us. There is no middle ground or nuances. Like when subscribing to Netflix, in current world you are not allowed to have your own opinion, you need to buy the full package.
In the original movie, when everything seems to be lost in California the rest of the world awakes and alerts about the invasion, so there is hope. Hope in every person who opens a book and read. In every person that develops his own opinion even if that is not the popular one. And in every brave person that dissent from the masses. Because nowadays thinking, seems to be one of the bravest thing one person can do.
PS. Invasion of The body snatchers is not available in Netflix
The movie portrays an extra-terrestrial invasion in a fictional town in California. Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of reproducing a duplicate replacement copy of each human. Each pod human assimilates the physical characteristics, memories, and personalities of each sleeping person placed near it with one exception, these duplicates, however, are devoid of all human emotion, like people with botox.
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Today, besides still having issues eating peas, I have realized that the movie, based on a novel of Jack Finney, was a clear premonition of today's society. When Finney wrote his novel, cable TV was still on its beginnings ( in 1952 only 14,000 people have access to cable TV in the US ) so he needed to use a more familiar way to convey the risk of an alien invasion, so he choose peas pods, which it was something present in all American homes at the time, so people could really relate to that.
As usual, human race never learns ( how otherwise we could have endured so many Tom Cruise movies ) and we have not been able to stop the invasion.
In a world where most people don't cook anymore and rely on pre-packed or take away food, pea pods where not an option anymore, so Aliens had to adapt to became creative till they found the only thing present in every home nowadays: a Netflix subscription.
Netflix is the perfect brainwashing machine. Under the illusion of cool and trendy shows, all of us are carefully guided towards herd thinking. We all now believe Tiger King is innocent and Carole Baskin killed her husband.
It does not matter that I have no interest in American politics. Every time I turn Netflix on, I have to see Michelle's Obama Becoming in front page. I am seriously considering leaving the documentary running while going to the shops, but I believe they will somehow track my phone and realize I am cheating. Besides even if I see it, I will then have to endure right after Beyoncé's homecoming one and if that was not enough Taylor's Miss Americana. By the way I wonder why they didn't allow her to use a gerund on her title, although judging by her last 2 albums she is lucky to have a documentary at all. That is probably why she become an activist all of the sudden, to hide her declining music.
You don't have to think anymore, Netflix thinks for you. It offers you the shows you should see , the causes you need to fight for and in case you are not politically correct enough it suggests to watch a certain show again.
The ultimate goal is to created an alienated society, where we all have to think the same way and there is no real discussion anymore. You are pro Tiger or Pro Carol. You are with us or against us. There is no middle ground or nuances. Like when subscribing to Netflix, in current world you are not allowed to have your own opinion, you need to buy the full package.
In the original movie, when everything seems to be lost in California the rest of the world awakes and alerts about the invasion, so there is hope. Hope in every person who opens a book and read. In every person that develops his own opinion even if that is not the popular one. And in every brave person that dissent from the masses. Because nowadays thinking, seems to be one of the bravest thing one person can do.
PS. Invasion of The body snatchers is not available in Netflix
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