America Is ... We asked 17 columnists topick the one piece of culture thatbest captures the country.
Opinion America Is Highly SusceptibleIn America now, it seems, everyone has been snatched.
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.
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” has been repeatedly adapted because the fear it plays on is one at the core of the American self-conception.
As (the good) Kevin McCarthy says in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” “At first glance, everything looked the same.
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