THE INVASION (Hive Mind Assimilation, Alien Endospores + Ending) EXPLAINED
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- Hey guys what’s happening? Niyat here with film comics explained! As requested, today we’re going to be exploring the 2007 thriller, The Invasion.
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel and starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jeffrey Wright and Veronica Cartwright, the film is a modern adaptation of Jack Finney's classic novel, "The Body Snatchers.
When a crashed space shuttle scatters debris across the US, a mysterious spore-like virus begins to pop up across the country. Within days, those that encountered the spore begin exhibiting strange behaviours, losing their individuality in favour of a cohesive collective hive-mind. One that threatens to eradicate the human way of life.
The film follows Dr. Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman), a psychiatrist who stumbles upon an alarming pattern of behaviour among her patients and those around her.
Set against the backdrop of a world plagued by war, violence, and suffering, The Invasion presents a chilling vision of a future where humanity loses its emotional core. As the invasion begins, Carol and her friends must race against time to save her son, whose immunity may hold the key to a cure that can turn the tide.
In this video, we are going to explore the film, how it compares to its source material, the viral pathogen that begins to change humanity and its origins, the infected, in addition to the ending.
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Technically if it was a hive mind. You couldn't get away with just acting expressionless. Because it would know that you are there but you are not part of the consciousness
More like an ant "hive mind" type of thing
@@l.palacio9076 Eusocial is the word of the day.
@@JRaney Thanks, I will add to my vocabulary
I have seven sisters, a mother, and a stepmother and three grandmothers and two granddaughters. I can tell you That's not exactly how a hive mind works 😆
There you go
The person jumping off that roof just to catch anyone reacting was brutal.
You have a majestic beard brunette dude 🧔🏽♂️
😂😂😂😂😂😂 That was funny
Oh I thought they are committing suicide because they thought there’s no hope anymore
@@crystalshines I thought so too but then you notice had zero emotion whilst jumping
@@makatronthey literally hugged before jumping
I love that they brought back Veronica Cartwright for this movie, she was in the 1978 version of Body Snatchers.
She helps lock you into the paranoi from the get go! Amazing performance. Plus she's an Alien alumni as one of the principal actors in the first Ridley Scott movie :)
I knew that her face looked familiar.
They brought the main actor of the 1956 movie in the 1978 one too! The man running down the street and getting hit in the 1978 version starred in the 1956 one.
She's an underrated character actor of the highest skill.
@@filmcomicsexplained s❤😊😮
I adored how the people who "knew" attempted to help. If only our existence was on a knifes edge, maybe humans would be less crappy.
Yeah Carol is alive because in the most trying of times, people choose to help her instead of being selfish and keeping their revelations to themselves from the cop, to the people on the train
Theres lots of good people out there. They just get drowned out by the jerks.
@@worldofdoom995 meh. Even the vast majority of those you call "good" are woefully ignorant and self absorbed. The number of truly GOOD people is far smaller than you realize.
I mean I’m a concealed carrier if I noticed that people had been acting strange for a few days and noticing their behavioral patterns and seeing normal people dragged out of sight to have god knows what done to them I think I would’ve started blasting your honor.
Notice how the people that are kept to themselves, quiet and outcasts manage to avoid initial detection
I love that part the most I also like how they were people of color helping white people it really showed the humanity of the human spirit n how race wouldnt matter when the actual human race is at stake
The opening shuttle crash scene for this movie was filmed right down the street from me. it was really cool in the days leading up to the filming night to drive by and see all the pieces in the field, especially when it was delayed by a sudden snow storm.
That’s awesome man!
@@filmcomicsexplained the Bar that's in the background is still there today. it's called the Bay Shore Bar and Grille.
Hm.
U lucky bast rd
I was part of a test audience for The Invasion and in our viewing it had a completely different ending. After the car chase where they eventually get rescued and taken away in the helicopter that ends up being the last we see of them. The camera fades to several news channels displaying a bleak and dark ending. The infected were shown on local news stations posing as their loved ones urging their family members that had escaped to come home. They basically took over earth. At least that’s how I interpreted it. I assume people in the audience were unhappy or confused about the ending so the studio had done reshoots to give us a more positive outcome.
Of course, Americans can't handle realistic stories, any ending where the US doesn't save the world or negative endings.
I personally would’ve been fine with that ending would’ve opened up the door for a sequel or a series
You people are the worst.
It kind of has no message to the movie with a negative outcome. It becomes confusing.
that ending sounds better. I saw a video recently that said quite a few dystopian movie endings were scrapped after test audiences reacted negatively
My favourite part is the suicide bit, they’re not people committing suicide, they’re infected who are doing it to see who will react.
There’s a 1953 short story called ‘The Hanging Stranger’ by Philip K. Dick that you really, really might enjoy.
I doubt that, the two jumpers hug before jumping
@@sangay9361 but did they make noise with emotion, was that hug filled with emotion?
Do you just give hugs to hugs?
Why I wouldn’t have any remorse neutralizing infected persons, biologically they’re still human but psychologically and in terms of their brains physiology they are not
@@sangay9361 to stirr emotion
It's weird how the CDC took such drastic measures yet let everyone involved exploring the crash go home right after instead of quarantining them for a while.
Almost like they are a front company that actually wants serious diseases to spread.
Art imitates real life.
You mean just like how they kept letting people who they knew were infected with COVID in the beginning of 2020 off of quarantined flights over and over?
Well if 200 square miles are as infected as the part in the little tent then this will really not make any difference
@@krystalgardiner5591really fucking really? You actually believe that shit?
They're all in on it
I had my son watched this version and the 1978 version back-to-back just to know his opinions. He said that the infestation was alien in origin because it was caused by "that vulcan"...took me a while to realize he was talking about Leonard Nimoy.
Despite Star Treks Ernest intentions your son is STILL a xenophobe!
This movie is more relevant now than it was in 2007.
Remove the pharmaceutics and pre-Orwellian chemically induced social regulation by social medias, political polarization, sequels and 25 Disney owned Marvel films with almost no originality barring a few...
@@ptolemeeselenion1542 Hm.
That scene where the CDC is rolling out a fake vaccine that actually infects you, and a reporter asks how they could have produced the vaccine so fast if this was a disease they had never encountered before… oooof.
It was interesting seeing the rushed vaccine development with ulterior motives to protect from a severe flu since that is exactly how some people view the covid vaccine.
It could be an allegory for people giving up freedom for peace and comfort.
Blissful ignorance kinda like the simulation in the The Matrix...
Hmmm, reminds me of something that actually happened....
Honestly an accidental contamination would be horrifying to even try to understand. The fact that something like this could just show up on its own in the universe leaves so many things open to questioning.
Covid *cough-cough*
I remember watching this film as a kid and having nightmares, wouldn't drink weird looking tea for weeks. The only thing I would add would be concerning a misunderstanding on the theme of communism with the bodysnatcher films. Originally, the author of the sci fi novel Jack Finney did not intend to create some kind of political allegory for the red fear or mccarthyism happening at the time ( wanting the story to be open ended). It was more that the audience that viewed the 1956 film/read the book projected their fears of those things onto the related material. Good Video Btw.
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Again i was thinking of a movie and you ended up reviewing it days later
This is strange that this version went with a happy ending instead of the twist like the 1978 one.
The weird thing was that despite its happy ending, it still felt bleak as Carols biggest take away was humanity = maybe bad. Seems more depressing than the 1978 ending where we lost the war but the human spirit was still in tact
@@filmcomicsexplained well maybe that is the twist that we aren’t seeing. Or unless it’s a fact out and it’s all in her head and she’s in some kind of coma and that’s where they go once they get taken over kinda like Upgrade ending.
Reminds me of my local occult
Reminds me of my local occult
@@TheLonelySoulja Hm.
Your selection and summaries are great, thank you for making these...
Thanks Jason!
Absolute gem of a movie. Saw it when I was really small and it's always been a fave of mine.
Cool.
same. some movies are just so good they stick with you for basically your whole life
Saw it as a kid too loved it
Me too! I watched this when I was around 11 and I loved it ever since
I love your videos!!! The format,the voice, the scenes you show are just perfect! Keep doing what you are doing.
Of course you upload and talk about this movie while I'm about to go to sleep 😂😂😂
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Cartwright may be quite a bit older since Alien, but her "hysterical wide eyes" expression is unmistakable!
This is seriously one of my favorite youtube channels
Thanks spreader26! Appreciate you fam :)
13:28 the ladies question, "...how are you ready with an antidote so quickly?..." felt like our own universe
Its sort of like a zombie move but also "the thing" in a way
Yes this is basically a Thing but got out in society
Thanks for bringing this movie back to my attention.
Anytime Damian! Thanks for stopping by as always bro :)
@@filmcomicsexplained don’t mention it keep doing what you are doing.
It’s so coincidental that I was asking friends about this movie yesterday and couldn’t think of the title.
Thank you.
You know, what this film left me wanting is another take on the source material where we follow somebody surviving long after the "pod people" have taken over.
Back when Nichole Kidman looked like Nichole Kidman 😂
Nicole no H
Beautifully well said. You spoke oit loud everything I do remembee the mivie was about. His poignant performances, storytelling, pacing issues, rushed climax, fumbled conclusion, unsettling topics...
OH GOD I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS MOVIE FOR YEARS BUT CAN'T SEEM TO FIND IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH
I think I love how u use that dope music at the end start playing as ur giving ur final thoughts while letting the scene play out.. Jus as much as ur technical reviews ...please keep formating ur vids jus that
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Well done as usual Niyad!👍👊
Even as a kid this movie terrified me, I’m literally in tears thinking of how scared I’d be
I'm an emotionally charged individual. I would NOT last if such an invasion occurred...
We're there already. It's called Wokism and happens mostly in the inner cities and online.
@@Memememe-is1yn
Woke=Awake
Awake=Consciousness
Consciousness=Awareness
Awareness=Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement=Understanding
Understanding=Cooperation
Cooperation=Progress
Progress=Change
(To the point) If these are things you fear, then you gonna in for a rude awakening.
@@emeraldtabbycat148 what?
@@Memememe-is1yn what do you mean?
For he was saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion, for we are many.” -Mark 5:8-9
*a foreshadowing of an uncoming invasion by these body snatchers.*
(Also, that's a bice biblical reference.)
1:46 get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head
This film had such a vast array of talents, yet the middling and unimaginative script and plot held it back. Factoring in a boring yet somehow rushed structure to the story, 'The Invasion' feels like a cheap, hollow, 'pod' duplicate version of it's source material. The screenwriters were onto something, yet it feels they tripped while at the halfway mark in the marathon of production. Nicole Kidman is genuinely amazing and without her as the lead, this movie would have felt lifeless, emotionless. Like the filmmakers had been assimilated themselves.
My antidepressants basically make me a cold and emotionless robot and I absolutely hate it. Why people think that being a collective singular entity if it means no peace or individualism is beyond me.
It’s about control and survival.
Stand out too much (example with original thoughts / free thinker, talents…) and you get hammered down so you don’t outshine those less capable or lazy.
You should get off of those. Not to preach about how to run your life, but I was on Fluoxetine for about six years for social anxiety and it has had permanent repercussions. I stopped taking it in about 2017, but ever since then my brain has not worked quite..."right". I don't feel emotions properly, I have strange mood swings, brain fog and difficulty learning/memorizing. I am incredibly apathetic.
I hope that the value the pills are giving you outweighs anything bad that might happen, and I hope x2 that it just works out fine for you.
I wouldn't recommend anybody takes antidepressants tbh.
I've been on them for 20yrs and there's suspicious evidence to suggest that they can cause long term brain damage, dementia risk, and permanent personality changes....added to that, more recently still, they're realising that they don't actually work....they never did in the way they specifically told people that they worked.
I'm not a conspiracy theorists, but I wouldn't refuse to at least ponder the reality of antidepressants as being one of the biggest lies ever perpetuated by pharmaceutical companies in the 20th century and it made companies like Pfizer billions and billions of dollars in revenue of the back of people that the drugs were never going to help, and I think they knew that all along.
Just because a lot of people don't seem to realize it, if your antidepressants are making you feel that way, they aren't working and you should try other options. Shitty as it is, you may need to try more than one medication to find one that works. And then sometimes they become less effective so you need to find a new one.
@@Davion197 I mean... it sounds like you went from social anxiety to depression. I've had both as a diagnosis- actually experienced two different types of depression, occurring years apart. So it might not be the medication at all.
The scene were the infected are vomiting (?) on the coffee will hunt me forever. Legit revolting 🤢
Imma have to check this movie out , i really love all ur reviews of movies or shows ,they are all in depth and u have the best outro, perfection😌🔥
Was a fun movie and I wish the faults that it has were corrected in an extended cut/alternate ending.
This was a fun video to take me down a nostalgic time when I saw it first. Thanks for this
So nobody is talking about the point the film was trying to tell, that until humanity is present, there will always be wars and chaos, through our free will,emotions and feelings, and ultimately no unity, the result will be consequential and dangerous in decisions making.
It’s apart of communist agenda, they just flip the script from the old days and turned it the other way. It does a good job of showing what a disgusting sickness communism is though 👍
Never even knew about this movie. I’ll have to check it out.
I've always really liked this movie. Well acted and thrilling. Great breakdown!
Cool looking dark haired dude 🧔🏻♂️
Is this the film where at the ending, there is a voice that say, “a world without chaos and violence? That is a world where humans do not exist.”
Yes
I was waiting for you to play the noise 'they' make in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 version)
That movie was so slow and bored me, but the noise they make when they see someone who isn't one of them is terrifying.
Honestly for this kind of movie an optimistic ending is nice. We have enough movies where ending shows pretty much everything is cunked.
Underrated Remake
Thank you Niyat!!! 🤗
You’re welcome!
I've never heard of this movie before, might watch it later
Thanks for this, I remember watching the movie years ago, but I couldn't remember what the movie was. I could only remember the kid and his mom running from "infected" people.
Great vid 😅
Thank you for reminding me I saw this movie.
I love how it's a virus, bacteria AND fungus with no realization those aren't the same things
Russians talking about a world without violence and war puts an eerie smile on my face…
Because in the video the quote is cut off.
"In the right situation, we are all capable of the most terrible crimes. To imagine a world where this was not so, where every crisis did not result in new atrocities, where every newspaper is not full of war and violence. Well, this is to imagine a world where human beings cease to be human. "
Interesting commentary on pharmaceuticals and clinical treatments for mental health
4:20
Me during High School and Community College. Mountain Dew, Pop Tarts, and Evenings of Modern Warfare 2.
Also: No Riot Shields
Hi Niyat, would love to see you do your analysis for the 2020 horror The Empty Man!
The hive mind seems to have its own goal, immediately playing with politics as soon as it had some sort of control, while the average infectants just went about their daily lives, not doing anything significant other than observation. This feels planned to me. I think this could be a way for a civilization to learn about humanity, while also driving them to extinction. If intelligent aliens are the perpetrators in this film, this could be a way for them to reset humanity, maybe to avoid a dangerous interstellar civilization, such as self replicating and rampant artificial intelligence, which I think they would see many warning signs in technology by this time (computers, spaceships, automated machinery, microscopic technology). But they also might be seeking research and knowledge, as biodiversity can be one of the most unique and unpredictable aspects of the universe. I think learning about any intelligent species would be beneficial to completely understanding life. Im sure this kind of research would be quite valuable to even advanced aliens. This could also be panspermia, but such a species ending virus like this would have surely happened on earth in the past 4 billion years, and especially not at the same time as a space faring civilization is beginning to arise, I think that is too big of a coincidence. It could be an alien lifeform which DOES periodically get to Earth and has been for a long time, but only effects a very slim amount of species. This is interesting as it could be a life form purposely spread across the galaxy to eliminate potentially dangerous intelligent lifeforms, or not necessarily dangerous, but ones that might develop dangerous technology that seems to be a common issue
My mom had a funny reaction to the barf ball being launched at the people trying to get out of the train.
And how they just throw up in the tea pot
You should do a reaction series
Most of the time I like watching your video on said movie then the actual movie.
In her choice of a cocktail of medicine to stay awake she grabs a bottle of Ritalin but it is empty. Instead, she chooses Amitriptyline and ignores two 1000-count bottles of Amphetamine called ADDERRALL. Yeah, it is spelled incorrectly but that is pure SPEED. A medical doctor would have known to snap up that medication but instead finds some injectable Epinephrine.
Well I think the epinephrine makes sense because it can be administered while she is asleep. Thought saw her taking a benzo as part of her stay awake cocktail which didn't make any sense.
Venoriica Cartwright in Alien... Became the first successful Alien Human Hybrid in X-Files then again in midst of another Viral 👽 takeover... Quite the career.
I love this movie. I must have watched it like 10 times
Nice!
I'm not sure "pharmaceuticals bad" is a great takeaway from all this.
Absolutely, trying to solve everything instantly with medication is a bad idea, and the pharma industry will exploit every opportunity it gets to squeeze all the money it can out people - especially in countries without a functional healthcare system. But on the other hand there are many cases where medication simply is the only sensible approach. As someone who only recently has been able to function like a regular person thanks to ADHD meds, I can tell you that it can be dangerous to mistrust a prescription based on some vague hearsay about medicine. Could have spared me 20 years of feeling like an absolute failure for struggling with basic everyday activities due to my symptoms...
This movie is bit underrated. I completely forgot that Daniel Craig was in this, I love seeing him in other roles besides Bond :P
How have I never heard of this?!
It is always children that doom the world
Kidmans experience with Scientology served her well for this movie!
Te to the party here. I like your description of Nicole Kidmann as having the grace and poise of a Hitchcock lead actress. Quite true! I do, however, prefer the 70s version with Leonard Nimoy's stylish psychiatrist and the othet veteran actors, though seeing Veronica Cartwright in The Invasion was a treat.
I'm not joking, I've been looking for this movie for ten years
I always lived the invasions movies (4 or more I believe) that was spawned from that book. There was also another flick called Assimilate that came out in 2019 you should check out, if you haven’t already. Not as great as one starring Kevin McCarty or Donald Sutherland but still a pretty cool entry !
Will you cover the Exosquad?
Will add it to the list Dark Lord Malthric! Thanks :)
“I threw my glass as my husband, and he didn’t do anything” so...he’s an alien?
In a case where it isn’t aliens, that would be completely crazy
Never seen but interested in seeing it.
“There can be no human society without conflict: such a society would be a society not of friends but of ants. Even if it were attainable, there are human values of the greatest importance which would be destroyed by its attainment, and which therefore should prevent us from attempting to bring it about. On the other hand, we certainly ought to bring about a reduction of conflict. So already we have here an example of a clash of values and principles. This example also shows that clashes of values and principles may be valuable, and indeed essential for an open society.”
― Karl Popper, Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography
I actually really liked this movie… even though it was not as good as the more popular 70s version, I still think that this was a solid scifi entry.
And much better than the 90s body snatchers movie.
much underated! as good as the 70s version
Great video as always niyat
Nice
I love, love, love this movie!! 100% recommend
What is the point of peace if your no longer you and able to enjoy it
I think people can enjoy a lot of stuff without emotions. I think the people infected still feel like themselves.
Please do a video on the neon demon...
Theory: The astronaut crew aboard the space shuttle were already infected and crashed the shuttle on purpose to spread the spore
Isn;t this based on a Robin COok book (which is itself a medical thriller version of The Body Snatchers) or is thata different movie?
Can you do a deep dive into the former HBO show West World?
Babe wake up new FCE video
😂 let’s goooo!
Happybirthday Grim
4:11
Damm Carlo, going to town on half the pills from three different bottles, and slamming down a 2L Mountain Dew.
(Joke) Should I do that if I need to stay awake?
lol this movie sounds like the same way "venom" started, he entered the atmosphere on a space shuttle reentering and found a person to infect when the shuttle landed.
I really should go back and watch this movie again, there is alot of context in the dialogue I would understand now. now that I have the ears to hear and the eyes to see.
That question about vaccine being ready so quick really hit home. Journalists knew how to ask the right questions back in 2007 it seems
Saddest part was where infected people killed their family pets.
Poor dog
What a cast!
This and the invasion of the body snatchers haunted me to this day. People screaming and pointing at you
21:56 see Commies aren't human.
New, ' Norm Hell '.
Really enjoyed this movie
Love the video can you do Panam Palmer,Meredith Stout,Rogue and Judy Alvarez from Cyberpunk 2077
I felt like I was the only one who liked this film when it came out
When it first came out I didn't give it a chance because I went with the critic reviews 😢 I might give it a chance. I stop listening to critics and online reviews and just watch the movies