When looking at "Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)" and its themes of mystery, it shows America's social conditions and domestic issues throughout the film. It does this well by also incorporating Gothic fiction themes that gives a sense of fear of the supernatural, and fear of conformity through inexplicable means. Conformity was a common thing back in the 1950's, based off of research by Solomon Asch, and this movie was a step towards people realizing this. By the 1990's, the 1993 remake "Body Snatchers (1993)" goes full throttle on the subject of conformity in society. When looking at the timeline for these movies, we can conclude that our society has moved from the fear of the supernatural, and from being oblivious to hegemonic societies (1956) to the realization that society has normalized the thing that we fear most: losing our identities (1993).
How has modern society normalized 'losing our identities'? What social issues or events have occurred to cause this? Are these events mostly involved with the government and laws? Or are they mostly movements such as the feminist movement? What does society think happens when someone looses their identity? What do you think happens? Can you be functional without an identity?
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