Tuesday, August 14, 2007

With a new Invasion of the Bodysnatchers remake coming out the NY Times has a by-the-numbers look at the different versions. One thing caught my eye:

Seen together, the first three films reflect shifts in cultural attitudes toward psychiatry. In each iteration a mental health professional treats the first wave of people who believe that impostors have replaced their loved ones. (This delusion is in fact a recognized condition in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as Capgras syndrome.)


Hey Capgassers...did we know about Capgras? And when is the DSM going to recognize Capgas syndrome, anyway? And who the hell are Hanna and Francois?

Comments:
Something tells me that at least one of them has ovaloid eyes slightly too high on an ovaloid head. Perhaps both do, but it's surely more likely that one does, while the other is locked in a codependent quasi-abusive relationship. The ovaloid one has a quiet charm, and no one is at all suspicious about getting an invite to Moissac, a laughably "normal," "average," small town in south west France, "where Francois grew up, and where his parents live" and that "has a compact centre, with shops, bars and restaurants," and where "on Saturdays and Sundays there is a large market in the town square where they sell a variety of local produce, including award winning melons and very smelly cheese." Smelly cheese, my arse: London to a brick that that rotting smell is the alien spawn that the good, average, normal folks of Moissac are, under guise of connubial celebrations, secreting into yet another corpus of earthling gulls. Sad, so sad.
 
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