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Many critics view the film as a concise and well-spoken metaphor for the [[Cold War]] and condemnation of [[liberal]] [[communist]] support.  The Old Man devoured at the beginning of the film by the Red Blob clearly represents the Old European powers absorbed by the Soviet Union, while the unlistening and power mad authority figures that refuse to listen to the well-reasoned and logical warnings of the main protagonist represent the Liberal institutions that placed the Soviets in such a position of power.  The Blob spreads and devours at will while the Liberal Powers That Be do nothing, until they are helpless to stop it.  It is only by the intervention of two upstanding and fair-eyed youths (fine examples of the rising youth culture who's hatred of communism prevailed in the 80s) that the Red Menace is foiled and exiled to a frozen wasteland (one of the easiest and clearest examples of cinematic symbolism, a representation of Siberia) so that Right Humanity might prevail.

Many critics view the film as a concise and well-spoken metaphor for the [[Cold War]] and condemnation of [[liberal]] [[communist]] support.  The Old Man devoured at the beginning of the film by the Red Blob clearly represents the Old European powers absorbed by the Soviet Union, while the unlistening and power mad authority figures that refuse to listen to the well-reasoned and logical warnings of the main protagonist represent the Liberal institutions that placed the Soviets in such a position of power.  The Blob spreads and devours at will while the Liberal Powers That Be do nothing, until they are helpless to stop it.  It is only by the intervention of two upstanding and fair-eyed youths (fine examples of the rising youth culture who's hatred of communism prevailed in the 80s) that the Red Menace is foiled and exiled to a frozen wasteland (one of the easiest and clearest examples of cinematic symbolism, a representation of Siberia) so that Right Humanity might prevail.

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