Invasion of the Body Snatchers Blog #12

In Invasion of the Body Snatchers, most of the town starts to notice their friends and family start to seem like they aren't themselves. The little boy fears being alone with his mother because he knows something is terribly wrong with her so he had to spend the night with his grandma. Also, there was that one lady where her uncle became very different. Even though these people couldn't find anything out of the ordinary with their actions, they could notice the lack of warmth and emotions that they usually had. I think that they saw this missing and became afraid that they would become the same way. They didn't even know the cause of this madness until the same thing was happening to them. This movie reminded me of The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. In both films, the neighbors feared each other because of the presence of the aliens. In both, the aliens made the humans act abnormally and become suspicious of each other. I agree with this film crossing genre boundaries. I think that it could also be considered a suspense and romance movie. In most of the plot we follow the two main characters as they confide in and fall deeper in love with each other. It also is very nerve wracking so it could be considered as a suspense movie.

Blog #11 -- Random Sample &The King of the Beasts

Random Sample was a little confusing to begin with. I think its about a young girl and how her brother and her saw a spaceship land while playing with some ants. I think she was sent to a psychologist because the adults didn't believe that she saw aliens. It shows that they hardly know nothing about the aliens and how all of this unknown information grows fear inside if them. I thought it was weird how the little girl and her brother started to beat the alien up because it wasn't paying attention to him. The alien only seemed to be interested in the wildlife. I think one underlying message in this short story is that us as humans think that we are completely in control of earth and tend to overpower nature when we should be trying to protect it and let it strive. I thought it was creepy in The King of the Beasts how they were growing clones of different species of animals. It makes me wonder what happened to the human race that made it become extinct. I also wonder what the dominant species is if humans aren't in control. It seems like they fear humans in this short story. I question wether they fear us for what we did or for what little knowledge they might have of us.

Blog #10 -- Planet of the Apes

The theme of Xenophobia appears in the film through the apes fear of the humans. This is also the same for the men who land back on Earth. The apes fear the humans because they were brought up to do so. The higher authority told them to fear the humans because they knew of the destruction that they brought upon themselves that ultimately ruined their society. This gave the apes a chance to evolve and become more advanced. This is why the humans were afraid, because when they left earth it wasn't normal for apes to be so advanced.

Planet of the Apes shows us that no matter how different the society, there is always going to be distinctions within it. There is always going to be people who stand for different things in a society. And people are always going to be discriminated because of their differences. I think that apes and humans were created equal but our mindset doesn't let us get over the little differences that we might have.

I think that Planet of the Apes has a message that sometimes it's alright to follow authority. In the apes' case they did find bliss in ignorance. They were protected from the information by the leaders. I think that the apes should be told of the world that came before theirs. If they were to have this knowledge I believe that they would be able to better understand the humans and maybe prevent another end of the world to happen.