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12 Feb 2004 @ 11:10, by Tom Bombadil The movie (a 1973 Czech/French production) is based on Stefan Wul's allegorical novel Oms en serie ( Oms by the dozen—probably a play on word from the French, hommes.) The symbolism of a powerful technological culture subduing a (literally) smaller one, then thoughtlessly underestimating and abusing its people, is clearly nonspecific enough to apply to almost any situation of political inequity: "On one level, it can be interpreted as an allegory of the struggle of one culture against another (at the time it was conceived in the late 60s, Russia was in the process of invading Czechoslovakia) a concept that is still very relevant today as mass media threatens to homogenize the entire world. On another level, it is simply an exciting and surreal adventure story. However you choose to view it, there is much to enjoy here." —Background and Plot, Gerry Carpenter

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