Invasion
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"The Invasion" of 2007 is our new generation's inspired "remake" of an old classic film - 1956's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Though also with a relatively simple science fiction premise, it is nevertheless, like all good stories are, credible as a possibility, and widespread in its implications if it ever becomes reality. This is the kind of movie which has the capacity to forewarn, even while it entertains...
The plot is about the struggle to literally stay awake, to not give in to the plague of mindlessness that shrouds the masses. Buddhists might see it as the quest to awaken to reality. A single lapse of mindfulness is to fall "asleep" to reality. But as the film shows, some are immune to the virus, resuming their mindfulness after sleep. Thank goodness we are likewise - since we do need sleep!
We lose "life" when we lose mindfulness - we become "lifeless" mechanical beings - mere "body snatcher" shells. On a related note, the Buddha taught that "Heedfulness (mindfulness) is the path to the deathless (Nirvana). Heedlessness is the path to death (of awareness). The heedful die not. The heedless are as if dead already." To fully awaken, we need all the mindfulness we can garner. The Buddha also uttered this - "Mindfulness, I declare, is all-helpful. All things can be mastered with mindfulness."[1]
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