"Psychological projection is the process of misinterpreting what is "inside" as coming from "outside". - - In its malignant forms, it is a defense mechanism in which the ego defends itself against disowned and highly negative parts of the self by denying their existence in themselves and attributing them to others, breeding misunderstanding and causing untold interpersonal damage."

Soviet Movies, left to right:

Guest from the Future (Гостья из Будущего), Per Aspera ad Astra (Сквозь Тернии к Звездам)

Moscow-Cassiopeia (Москва-Кассиопея), Guest From the Future (again)

Kin-Dza-Dza (Кин-дза-дза), The Witches Cave (Подземелье Ведьм)

Moscow-Cassiopeia (again), This Merry Planet (Эта весёлая планета)

I don't know this one, She Fell from clouds (Spadla z oblakov)

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      A fairly big part of Western UFO mythology holds that they're enlightened peaceful beings that are trying to save humanity from our evil ways though

      And the way do to that is to abduct lonely weirdos and having sex with them, apparently

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Pretty sure that's all The Thing. There are plenty of non-scary aliens in Western cinema.

      But this is propaganda, so fuck nuance.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      That's just not at all true. They're all different movies. I've seen most of em

      • ambientmarxist [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        USA, left to right, top to bottom:

        Predator, Slither, Alien: Covenant, Xtro (not a movie from USA but whatever), The Thing (1982), The Blob (1988), The Faculty, The Thing (1982), Alien Resurrection, The Thing (1982).

        Three are from the same movie.

      • guppyman [any]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, there's a few I'm curious about as well. I can see The Thing, Predator and Alien Resurrection

      • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        can you name them all? I can recognize the obvious ones (the Thang, Pred-Ator) but the others I do not know

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Not all, there's a Xenomorph so Alien, From Beyond, Close Encounter of the 3rd kind. One is a Cronenberg movie that I can't recall