Sci-fi films usually deal with issues which seem scientifically possible, but which do not occur in real life. For this reason, they are often set years into the future (when technology allows certain events to take place) and/or in alternate realities where certain circumstances make plot-lines plausible. Sci-fi films bring far-fetched childhood fears to life (zombies, monsters and aliens) and surrounds them with as much realism as possible, often leaving the audience questioning the likelihood of these events happening to them in real life.
Fears in Invasion of the body snatchers and invasion
In both films, characters talk about how some of their family members and friends look and act the same, but they do not believe they are the same person. They become afraid that their family members are becoming different people and that it could soon happen to them. In both films, the main characters love interests remain human until the very end, fears that these people will be replaced by impostors are expressed by the lead characters in both films. The characters spend much of the movie completely confused as to why their loved ones are turning against them, they are perhaps made more afraid by the fact they do not know whats going on. Invasion presents unlikely antagonists in the form of children. They are usually innocent and unsuspecting, but in invasion, the characters learn to fear them.
Similarities between focus films and Zombie films:
The most obvious similarities are the antagonists. Traditionally, zombies resemble humans in every physical way, but they are taken over by another power which aims to spread to disease to as much as the population as possible. And zombies are usually overcome by instinctual urges (eating and reproducing). These ideas are reflected in the focus films by the way the antagonists aim to hunt down and infect every remaining human, and how they lose any empathy towards people they once considered friends. The fears of losing loved ones to infection and overrun are present in both focus films and throughout the zombie genre.
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