It is therefore unsurprising that American science fiction films in the post-war era examined the consequences of a possible Soviet invasion. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the original, that is) presents an American town in which the human is threatened by outside forces that are antithetical to the human: that is, they are not mammalian; they are clusters rather than individuals; and they have no emotions (Bukatman, 1993, p. 270). As the title implies, Don Siegel's film is about the replacement of human beings by unknown entities capable of morphing into their identical copies. The only difference from the original is, as Danny Kauffman says, their lack of love, desire, ambition, and faith. Miles replies that he wants…show more content… It defies capitalism, which permits the consumption of consumer goods depending on the economic stance of an individual. In short, capitalism stands for the freedom of difference from one individual to another. The body snatchers main goal is to transform American society into a utopia an imaginary state of ideal harmony and perfection (King & Krzywinska, 2000, p. 118), which correlates with the intentions of the Soviet government of the time. The American government, which was lead by President Harry S. Truman, portrayed the world as divided into two camps, one democratic and the other oppressive and tyrannical (Blackburn, 1996, p. 8). As a result, they aided nations that were on the verge of suffering communist takeovers such as Greece and Turkey by what became known as the Monroe Doctrine. [] This action marked the beginning of [] containment, meaning that the United States would take a lead in containing communist expansion (ibid). Miles attempts the same throughout the entire narrative contain the expansion of the body snatchers in his
