Victory vs. Visitors

Found out last night that the old Jewish man in a movie whom I'd been thinking for many years now, says Shalom to the Nazis entering the room with machine guns, is actually talking to extraterrestrial invaders. The rest is correct but all this is happening in the TV series 'V' I saw as a kid. That face and scene had stuck with me without me remembering the circumstances it all took place under.

Though the story has a parallel to things that happened during the world wars, and I guess, not only by coincidence. It's about totalitarianism and how the propaganda, nice on the surface can completely deceive people's mind. Or in many cases make them fear so much those who they think are on power that they rather surrender and even give up those around them to save their own lives.

Also the glass containers with thousands of human bodies in them that resistance spies see on a spaceship have obviously affected scenes, for instance, in The Matrix where people were used as energy source the same way. On the other hand it resembles a lot of all that happened in concentration camps where creatures with a human appearance (I just wouldn't call them human) were collecting people and experimenting on them, thus causing them endless suffering and pain, and evidently killing many of them.

The visitors in this TV series also decide to use human shape and first behave friendly with the earthlings in public to reach their goal easier which is to get all the water from this planet, since they ran short of it. In 'Signs' the aliens who don't bother using a camouflage, come to harvest mankind and they can be destroyed by water. In 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' it's only one friendly and secretive alien who arrives to get back a whole lot of water for his deserting home, but is found out by Earth-men and through a series of experiments is made into one of us while his spaceship gets destroyed. I can also recall the Tommyknockers where the visitors take on the bodies of the locals to hide and to take over the place.

The queue is quite long, nevertheless the story goes about us all the time. How we abuse each other and the planet we live on. And in 'V' when they come to take this old Jewish man, he leaves his family with the message 'If we don't help each other, we haven't learned a thing'.