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** The ferry sequence, in which several tripods converge on the crowded Hudson ferry terminal from three different directions (including from under the water) and begin harvesting people en masse. If there's any scene that really demonstrates just how screwed humanity is, it's this one.

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* QuestionableCasting: Creator/TomCruise as Ray, a blue collar worker.



* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/TomCruise as Ray, a blue collar worker.

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* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/TomCruise as Ray, a blue collar worker.
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This is not faux symbolism. Resistance to the aliens (and the viability thereof) is a major theme of the movie.


* FauxSymbolism: When Ray and Rachel arrive in Boston, one of the first things they see there is a statue of a [[LaResistance Minuteman]] covered in dying alien weeds.
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* AnAesop: Just like the the book: All life on Earth was put here for a reason and serves a valuable biological purpose.

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* AnAesop: Just like the the book: All life on Earth was put here for a reason and serves a valuable biological purpose.
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*** How the aliens are finally defeated sometimes gets incorrectly treated as this, when the film was being faithful to the book and the moral of its story.

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*** ** How the aliens are finally defeated sometimes gets incorrectly treated as this, when the film was being faithful to the book and the moral of its story.

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* AnAesop: As found in the original novel: All the life on Earth was put here for a reason and serves a valuable biological purpose.

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* AnAesop: As found in Just like the original novel: the book: All the life on Earth was put here for a reason and serves a valuable biological purpose.


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*** How the aliens are finally defeated sometimes gets incorrectly treated as this, when the film was being faithful to the book and the moral of its story.
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* AnAesop: As found in the original novel: All the life on Earth was put here for a reason and serves a valuable biological purpose.
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** A teenage Creator/ChanningTatum is the boy in the church.
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** Creator/DavidHarbour is one of Ray's co-workers at the dock.

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