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49 - "They pose as saints, but are full of lies!" - 'Seven Samurai'
There is nothing so insidious as an enemy that wears a friend's face. It's the reason that so many tales of horror and suspense involve creatures capable of taking on familiar or innocuous forms. Our psychology is such that certain visual cues have come to mean "innocent" and "safe" and "unthreatening" just as surely as we have learned to recognize the dangerous or unwanted on sight.
( What lies beneath )
(445)
There is nothing so insidious as an enemy that wears a friend's face. It's the reason that so many tales of horror and suspense involve creatures capable of taking on familiar or innocuous forms. Our psychology is such that certain visual cues have come to mean "innocent" and "safe" and "unthreatening" just as surely as we have learned to recognize the dangerous or unwanted on sight.
( What lies beneath )
(445)
