“The Host” of Two Minds, One Body

“Of Two Minds, One Body”

“Hotshots” looks at a movie!

The Host is based on the novel written by Stephenie Meyer, who also wrote the books that were the basis for the Twilight series of films, but this one doesn’t have any vampires or werewolves in it, just aliens.

When the movie opens, Earth has been invaded by an alien race that has inhabited almost every human body, and the humans who haven’t been invaded are on the run.

We learn that the aliens don’t change the worlds they invade, but they just occupy and improve them.

Yeah, right.

We see one young woman being chased by aliens and put up a fight, but she is captured.

An alien known as The Seeker looks down at the captured woman and says, “This one wants to live.”

The mind of the young woman, Melanie, played by Saoirse Ronan, stays active even though her body is taken over by an alien mind.

How do we know this? Because we hear the thoughts of both minds, but you can figure out the problem with this gimmick, can’t you?

Both minds are played by the same actress, therefore they sound exactly alike, and when one of the minds starts thinking, we don’t know if it is the human or the alien speaking.

Also, which mind is in control of the body?

Well, the alien mind says to call her Wanderer, and the human mind, Melanie, dreams, which we see and which fills in her back story, but then the Melanie body escapes when she is being interrogated so that the aliens can find other humans.

We can see the difference between aliens and humans, because the aliens all wear white clothes. The aliens also don’t lie, because they trust each other, and therefore it is easy enough for Melanie to borrow an alien’s car and take off in search of other humans.

However, Melanie and Wanderer get into an argument and one of them crashes the car.

Well, to make a long movie short, Melanie and Wanderer find some humans who are led by Melanie’s uncle, there is a three-way love story, but the movie’s pacing is so slow, what could have been a promising story just drags along.

Also, some famous actors in it are unrecognizable.

The Host is of two minds and one body, just like me about this movie.

I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”