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And to my surprise, after watching the movie, I came across the article below in The New York Times.
Richard Koenigsberg

In America now, it seems, everyone has been snatched. If you haven’t been snatched by some invader or other, you’re nobody.

America has undergone a toxic transformation in which many seem to have been taken over by ideas, slogans, conspiracy theories, lies and emotions, to the point that they have become unrecognizable, even to those close to them. They are running in gangs, crowds and mobs, with an increasing abdication of the responsibility to think for oneself, surrendering to whatever germ is in the water. There’s no calm, no deliberation, no chance to change your mind about anything. Just a collapse of individuality, the very trait the country was founded on.

The 1956 horror movie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” with Kevin McCarthy, conjured one of our deepest fears as humans, one with particular resonance for the American ethos: Your humanity is replaced by something similar but frighteningly different, your self erased. In the movie, aliens invade a California town; their plant spores grow into “pod people” that duplicate humans and subsume their identities. The replicants look exactly the same, except without emotions.
 

Please watch the movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers.