Big Ideas - Freeze Frame

The Twilight Zone pushed the edge 50 years ago, and it still holds up today. Rod Serling couldn't take on McCarthyism head-on, so he used allegories - terrible things happening to good people in good little towns imbued with 'American' values. Although a few of the premises have almost become clichés, many are as frightening today as they were when I was 10 years old... Martians arrived to get food - but the food is us... a nuclear bomb goes off and the sole survivor, a book loving hermit who has prepared with a library of thousands of books, breaks his only pair of glasses... the devil is a beautiful woman.
Here's a beautifully choreographed clip which shows the outsider notion in motion, or should I say with a lack of motion. Something other worldly is happening all around us..... Freeze Frame
What makes this clip work? It's a HUGE idea.... big place, big idea, beautiful execution. And, it's never been seen before. It's original. It's got that Twilight Zone edge.
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