`Body Snatchers (5) Our Fundamental Humanity

Nicole Kidman as American psychiatrist Carol Bennell finds herself engaged in a quietly pivotal debate with Roger Rees as Russian ambassador Yorish.  I'm not quite sure that even in the right situation, we are all capable for the most terrible crimes.  But for better or for worse, aggression in one form or another does seem to be an inviolable part of human history.  Perhaps the irony of what Yorish argues is this: The predatory, albeit dispassionate, nature of the body snatchers speaks to his very definition of what it means to be human.  In this light, we cannot say that the body snatchers rob humanity of its humanity.  Instead, it simply captures an essence of that humanity.   

Professor and author Vivian Sobchak speaks wisely about, and alludes to, an area of import in Theory of Algorithms and The Core Algorithm: Much as we in Western culture may value the rational, scientific and logical, we as human beings are simply not just rational, scientific or logical.  We are very much non-rational, intuitive and emotional, too.  To advance one, to the neglect of the other, as scientist and artist sorts may do, is to paint a terribly misguided, incomplete picture of humankind.  

Note: In the DVD for `The Invasion (2007), the fourth film adaptation of the classic Jack Finney novel `The Body Snatchers, We've Been Snatched Before is a feature program.  I couldn't find an upload of it on YouTube, so the next best thing, I thought, was to capture this thought-provoking program via the foregoing screen shots.