Anxieties over the space race became a dominant theme in science fiction from Sputnik to Alien. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers turned the 1950s' communism-related paranoia into an eerie metaphor. Metropolis expressed fears about the class divide back in the 1920s. The greatest science-fiction films, like the greatest horror films, usually channel the sublimated terrors of their era.
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