Invasion (2007)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | invasion |
| Original title | The invasion |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Oliver Hirschbiegel , James McTeigue (not listed) |
| script |
David Kajganich , The Wachowskis (not listed) |
| production | Joel Silver |
| music | John Ottman |
| camera | Rainer Klausmann |
| cut |
Hans Funck , Joel Negron |
| occupation | |
| |
Invasion (Original title: The Invasion ) is an American thriller with horror elements by Oliver Hirschbiegel from 2007 . Dave Kajganich wrote the screenplay based on the 1955 novel The Body Eaters come by Jack Finney . The novel was previously filmed as The Demonic (1956), The Body Eaters Coming (1978) and Body Snatchers (1993).
The film describes the consequences of a space shuttle crash on Earth. An extraterrestrial life form discovered in the rubble nests in the brains of people who then display completely changed, emotionless behavior and try to build a new social order on the basis of this.
action
A space shuttle falls to Earth and crashes into the atmosphere, scattering its debris across much of the United States. An extremely temperature-resistant alien life is discovered in the debris. Tucker Kaufman, a government researcher, visits a laboratory to study the life form. By carelessness, he comes into contact with the life form. During the night, his skin tissue undergoes a change, but this has subsided after waking up.
Kaufman's ex-wife, psychiatrist Carol Bennell, is visited by a patient who insists that her husband's personality has changed dramatically. At a Halloween party with children from the neighborhood, her son Oliver discovers a strange organism. She takes it to her platonic friend Ben Driscoll, a doctor and scientist, to have it examined.
An unknown epidemic breaks out among the people who came into contact with the debris of the shuttle: the infected people change their behavior after falling asleep and lose all emotions. Since parts of the wreck were sold by finders on the Internet, the epidemic has already spread to other continents. Kaufman causes the Ministry of Health to launch a large-scale vaccination campaign that he uses to deliberately spread the virus. Meanwhile, wars and conflicts are surprisingly ended in different parts of the world.
While Carol drives her son Oliver to his father, her ex-husband Kaufman, she witnesses an accident: A disturbed woman who wants to warn her of an unspecified danger is hit by another car. The police make no effort to help the injured or to record the course of the accident. Later, Carol and Driscoll attend his friend Dr. Henryk Belicec. The present Russian embassy employee Yorish provoked the guests with a discussion about the cruelty of human behavior. A nonviolent world, Yorish claims, would be a world in which people stopped being human.
Driscoll and his team discovered a spore in the brain of the infected person, which took over its control function as soon as the infected person fell into REM sleep . Immune are those people who have suffered from varicella encephalitis or ADEM at one point in their life . Carol's son Oliver is one of them. Carol wants to pick up her son at Kaufman's to investigate the possibility of making a cure. Before that, Carol accompanies Driscoll to the house of the Belicecs, whose guest Yorish is afflicted by a strange change in the outer tissue. Yorish attacks Carol but is overwhelmed.
In Kaufman's house, this one tries to persuade Carol to become "one of yours". When she struggles, he infects her with his saliva. She continues her search, knowing that she can postpone the transformation as long as she stays awake. In order not to attract attention, she mimes one of the infected people who are already in the majority. On the television news, Carol learns that wars and conflicts have stopped all over the world. Pakistan and India solve the Kashmir conflict , George W. Bush and Hugo Chávez become friends and there are no more terrorist attacks in Iraq .
Carol finds her son in Kaufman's mother's apartment. Both initially play the role of the infected and then flee the house. They're both hiding in a drugstore where she's waiting for Driscoll. When she is about to fall asleep, Oliver wakes her up with an injection she has prepared. Eventually Driscoll emerges, extolling the virtues of the changing world. Carol realizes that Driscoll has also been converted and shoots him in the leg to stop him. Driscoll's associate Galeaneo, accompanied by an army escort, rescues her and her son and takes them to a military base in an army helicopter.
Galeano's team is developing a remedy that will render the virus harmless in a very short time. Once they have been healed, the formerly infected can no longer remember what they did during their illness. In an interview, Galeano replied to the question of whether the virus was successfully contained, one only had to take a look at the newspaper - humanity was behaving humanely again. In the final scene, Carol is getting her son ready for school while the recovered Driscoll, now apparently Carol's life partner, reads the newspaper. Concerned, he comments on an article about violence in Baghdad . From the off you can hear Yorish's remark that a non-violent world would be a world in which people would have ceased to be human.
background
Despite a significant change compared to the original novel and the earlier films, Invasion has some things in common with its predecessors:
- The greatest deviation from the original concerns the transformation of the people into a callous image of themselves - the transformation takes place here in the body of the person concerned, instead of an exchange with externally identical duplicates grown in pods.
- As in Die Body Eater, you see the extraterrestrial organism in its original form early in the film, before it seizes human bodies or imitates them. The demonic and body snatchers did not show it.
- Unlike in its immediate predecessor, Body Snatchers , the invasion takes place again in a civilian setting and, as in Die Körperfresserommen , in a big city. If the scene there was San Francisco , here it is Washington, DC
- As in the novel and in the first two film adaptations, the main character is again a doctor by the name of Bennell. Bennell is a psychiatrist here - and a woman.
- Some names from the novel and the film adaptations from 1956 and 1978 have also been retained - Driscoll is Bennell's partner (here a man with the first name Ben, formerly Becky or Elizabeth and a woman), Kaufman is the doctor / scientist close to Bennell who is himself turns out to be "transformed". (The Belicec couple appear in earlier versions, but in a completely different constellation.)
- Bennell sees for the first time in the house of the Belicecs a transformation that has not yet been completed - in the versions from 1956 and 1978 the person concerned was Jack Belicec, here it is a guest who they host in their house.
- As in The Demonic and Body Snatchers , a young boy realizes early on in the film that one parent has changed.
- As in the first two films, Kaufman first tries to persuade Bennell to transform instead of using violence by praising the advantages of a new, emotionless identity.
- In the previous film adaptations, one of the main characters reveals himself through an emotional reaction as a "real" person in the midst of the transformed, here there are repeated secondary characters.
- The police have again played a decisive role in the spread of the new social order.
- In all film adaptations, the main character or a central character tries to stay awake with the help of medication to prevent the transformation.
- In an army hospital, people are systematically converted into body snatchers . In Invasion , Carol Bennell discovers a large number of people in the office of a supermarket in a uniform stage of change, who were apparently also infected systematically at the same time.
- As in Body Snatchers, a voice from the off puts the victory over the aliens into perspective.
Oliver Hirschbiegel was replaced as director during the course of production. The Wachowski siblings and James McTeigue worked on the revision of the film without being named in the credits.
The film was shot in Baltimore , Los Angeles, and Washington DC from September to December 2005 and January 2007. Its production cost was estimated 80 million US dollars . Producer Joel Silver said the production costs were "comparatively low," which was unusual for Silver, but was what the director wanted. The film doesn't contain many special effects , but tells about people.
The film opened in American cinemas on August 17, 2007, and in German cinemas on October 18, 2007. US box office revenues totaled approximately 15.1 million US dollars.
Veronica Cartwright , seen here as the desperate wife of an infected person, also appeared in Philip Kaufman's Die Körperfresser Come , the second film adaptation of the novel.
Reviews
“[...] a cinematic dud. The film doesn't know what it wants to be - an action film , a horror film , a science fiction allegory, or a film about the bond between a mother and her son. As a result, he is none of the above. "
“The picture is too dark and partly blurry […] and the cut is grossly exaggerated in the transparent attempt to drive the action forward and to increase the narrative speed. But senseless jump-cuts and incoherent flash-aheads don't lure anyone out from behind the stove. "
"[...] a visually attractive, but superfluous, characterless thriller [...] occasional bows to the previous films [...] only remind you how much better they were."
"[...] the invasion is like brainwashing, after which there are only Americans who are aligned, like-minded, who function and don't piss off. An alliance of the willing that Bush could not have imagined more beautifully. [...] If you've seen this film, you understand America all too well. "
“What begins as an exciting and sometimes ironically accentuated horror story with perhaps even deeper meaning ends in the noisy chases and excesses of destruction in routine event films. The suspense of personality changes perishes in a jumble of surprising colportage. "
Awards
Jackson Bond was nominated in 2008 for the Young Artist Award in the Young Actor Under Ten Category .
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
literature
- Jack Finney: Die Körperfresserommen (Original title Invasion of the Body Snatchers ), Goldmann, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-442-23324-0 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Invasion . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2007 (PDF; test number: 111 122 K).
- ↑ Age rating for invasion . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b Susan Wloszczyna: "Paranoia gets revisited in 'The Visiting'" , USA Today of 11 November 2006 called on 7 August, 2007.
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung number 242 of Wednesday, October 17, 2007.
- ↑ Review by Peter Zander in Die Welt , October 17, 2007.
- ↑ a b c Entry on The Invasion in the Internet Movie Database , last accessed on October 20, 2008.
- ↑ "[...] a cinematic dud. The Invasion doesn't know what it wants to be - an action film, a horror movie, a science fiction allegory, a mother / son bonding picture - and, as a result, it ends up being none of the above. “- Review on reelviews.net , 2007.
- ↑ "The movie looks murky and at times blurred [...] and it's been badly overedited in a transparent bid to goose the action, to create a suggestion of narrative tension. But nonsensical jump-cuts and incoherent flash-forwards can't raise the dead. ”- Review in the New York Times , August 17, 2007.
- ↑ "[...] a slick but forgettable, characterless thriller. […] Occasional nods to earlier versions […] only serve as a reminder of how much better they were. ”- Review in Variety , August 15, 2007.
- ^ Review in Die Welt , October 17, 2007.
- ↑ Quotation ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from the review by Film-Dienst , October 12, 2007, on film-zeit.de, accessed on October 26, 2011.
Web links
- Invasion in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Invasion of the online film database
- Invasion at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Invasion at Metacritic (English)