The Family reminds me of the Tea Party the way it is going

People like you are part of the problem. I do scientific outreach to people who are likely just as much right and there are those on the left and when you look past all the crap you'd be surprised how many of them are accepting... it makes a difference if when you see people are human beings and not political parties.

I know there is a real fringe out there but believe me, the left live in a fantasy land as much as the right. Anyone who has to go so far out of their way as you have to create schism among normal people is detrimental, in my mind.

I'm really getting sick of some IMDB posters injecting their political opinions into their thoughts on a movie all the time. This represents the Republicans or the Democrats! That character is an allegory for Obama!

Look, many movies are obviously political but not every movie trying to take a stab at the current administration or denouncing a recent war. Especially Omega Man. This is a 1971 film.

"The Family" is pretty clearly a reference to the "Manson Family," who were brought to trial a little more than a year before "The Omega Man" was released.

It's not a direct analogy, but rather an allusion to a "cult" headed by a charismatic personality. It's also something of a stab at "Utopian-ism," in that the Family is trying to bring about its version of a perfect world - returning to a time before "man threatened more than he offered." This is something of a reference to the 60's counter culture in general, but, again, also to Manson who wanted to start an apocalyptic race war that would leave him in charge.

The use of the term "Family" also pits individualist Neville against a "community." Neville is like a Western hero archetype in that his tragic fate is that he ultimately cannot belong to any community - even that of the healthy survivors. To quote Ritchie, "You just don't belong."

Think you may need to do a little research.

Spot on.

First of all, who gives an infintesimal reproductive act what the family reminds you of? 😨💨😷

It's nice and comfy and warm in the "liberal"* cocoon, isn't it OP?

Damn those Tea Partiers! Thinking their lives and property belong to themselves and not the Hive! What madness! Why don't they just shut up, bend 'em and spread'em?

(*And by "liberal" I mean of course "tax-happy, coercion-addicted, power-tripping State fellator.")

The way things are going, it's the cultist who have taken science (the method of testing a falsifying statements) and turned it into a brow beating, public policy mandating witch hunt that reminds one more of The Family. As I write this, top Democratic Senators are trying to make it a crime to deny Climate Change. A CRIME TO HAVE A CONTRARY VIEW. Which sounds more like The Family? Of course, I'm sure, you're nodding your head in approval these two years later.

I have a high regard for the rationality and logic of science. It's sad how cultists have abused the word (now Science!!!!!) and use it as an excuse to push their Puritanical views. That all this is, a new manifestation of Puritanism. The sad difference is the population in years gone by pushed the obnoxious Puritans out and they had to eventually find their way to America. Today, they control much of the Federal government, large key states, our blue "city states", the main stream media, and the most institutions of higher "education". I live in a world where Mathias and his Family are the rulers.