Subj : Village of the Damned
To   : Mike Powell
From : August Abolins
Date : Tue Nov 28 2023 12:50 am

Hello Mike Powell!

** On Monday 27.11.23 - 11:37, Mike Powell wrote to ALL:

 MP> The other day I had the opportunity to watch Village of
 MP> the Damned, and the sequel Children of the Damned, for the
 MP> first time.

Based on a book, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham.


 MP> I won't give up how it ends, but it is a good sci-fi/suspense flick.

Some people die in the end.   ;)


 MP> ...they too are soon identified as being a
 MP> potential threat that must be dealt with.

 MP> The sequel was also suspenseful, but I didn't think it was
 MP> as good as the first.  Although it was sci-fi, it seemed
 MP> to spend more effort on the message... that humans don't
 MP> react well when exposed to people who are different.

Dialog (in the book) between the children and the professor is  
the highlight of the story. It is a kind of debate about  
dealing with different people.  I seem to recall that the 1995  
version with Christopher Reeve does a good take on that dialog  
scene. The giveaway is that the children become determined to  
overtake the humans and say so. They have no interest to live  
in harmony. So.. they are indeed a threat.


 MP> I also could not get over the fact that, although this is
 MP> a sequel and although the events took place after the
 MP> events in the first, that no one in the second seemed to
 MP> be familar with said events in the first.

Well.. it *is* just a movie and they probably thought that was  
one way to build suspense.


 MP> Waiting for someone to speak up and say "hey, remember
 MP> when..." and then using that knowledge to apply to the
 MP> current situation may have kept me from enjoying the
 MP> sequel as much.

Yep. As a viewer, you don't know what they know or not, and  
wonder why they are pretending as if they don't remember the  
world-wide "invasion" of the cuckoos.
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  ../|ug

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