The Blob (Movie)

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The Blob is the title of a 1954 film starring Steve McQueen and Aneta Corsaut. Its plot involves a meteor which falls near the small town of Downington, Pennsylvania. An old man pokes it open with a stick and finds a small, jelly-like mass inside. It slides up the stick and onto his hand, and turns out it is a living parasite. Two teenagers are out on a drive when they pick him up and take him to the doctor's office. There it dissolves the old man completely and then the nurse and eventually the doctor. Growing bigger with each victim, the terrible "Blob" continues by consuming a mechanic and then a janitor in Steve Andrew's father's grocery store. It follows him and his girlfriend (Corsaut) into the back room, but won't enter the freezer. Then it goes to the Colonial Theater and eats the man running the projector, and then busts through the wall. People run screaming as the Blob eats more victims, and then it emerges from the theater and engulfs a diner. Eventually, they learn that it can't stand cold, so they hit it with a bunch of carbon dioxide, which freezes it into a harmless block of ice. Then it is shipped to the Arctic.

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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