The Invasion

The Invasion

Language : English
Year : 2007
Medical Theme : Epidemic Altering Human Behavior
Actors : Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond
Storyline : The explosion of a space shuttle while returning to earth carries along its fragments an alien virus that recodes the human DNA. Nicole Kidman as a psychiatrist observes the change in the behavior of her client first and later in her ex-husband who after being infected with this fungus like alien life form act cold, emotionless. The story soon becomes a fight of a mother trying to protect her son while she attempts to rescue him from her ex-husband but gets infected in return. She is aware that the extra terrestrial epidemic could cause you to become emotionless automatons and works only when asleep and tries all possible means to keep her awake. In all this she discovers that her son was vaccinated for chicken pox and was immune to the disease hence she also becomes a finder of the solution to the epidemic. After a huge loss of near and dear ones, the movie ends with the epidemic eradicated and those infected had no memory of behavioral change at all.