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We forget we live in a culture where it just makes sense to us. Where what we’re currently experiencing is more or less a “duh, that’s just how it goes” than anything else. The same can be said for every era of music, piece of literature, art, or in this case: film. Science fiction was born out of an era of fear of the “Red Scare” and pending nuclear holocaust. It wasn’t really aliens being depicted in all those Twilight Zone episodes, just allegories and allusions to the present undercurrent of panic and terror for tomorrow. People may not have known it entirely then, but we’re also a culture that loves to look back and analyze everything. As they say, hindsight is 20/20. If we look hard enough at almost any film, we can see shifts in perception, content, and surprising undertones. I’m hoping...
