The Host

Theatrical release poster

Directed by - Andrew Niccol
Produced by - Stephenie Meyer, Nick Wechsler, Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz
Screenplay by - Andrew Niccol
Based on - The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Starring - Saoirse Ronan, Emily Browning, Max Irons, Jake Abel,
Frances Fisher, Chandler Canterbury, Diane Kruger, William Hurt
Music by - Antonio Pinto
Cinematography - Roberto Schaefer
Edited by - Thomas J. Nordberg
Production company - Nick Wechsler Productions, Silver Reel
Distributed by - Open Road Films, Universal Pictures, ChockStone
Pictures, ShowMaker Works
Release dates - March 29, 2013
Running time - 125 minutes
Country - United States
Language - English
Budget - $40 million
Box office - $63,327,201   (wikipedia.org)

Awards
1 win & 2 nominations.   (imdb.com)

TOMATOMETER
8%
Average Rating: 3.6/10
Reviews Counted: 118
Fresh: 10
Rotten: 108

AUDIENCE SCORE
50%
liked it
Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 52,577   (rottentomatoes.com)

Metascore
35
Based on
28 Critics
User Score
4.7
Based on
165 Ratings   (metacritic.com)

Diane Kruger as The Seeker / Lacey

Saoirse Ronan as Melanie Stryder / Wanderer "Wanda" & Max Irons as Jared Howe

Jake Abel as Ian O'Shea

Saoirse Ronan as Melanie Stryder / Wanderer "Wanda"

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Plot
The human race has been taken over by small parasitic aliens
called "Souls". The Souls travel to distant planets en masse, in
individual capsules, inserting themselves individually into a
host body of that planet's dominant species. The Soul
completely replaces the consciousness of its host, though
they are able to access the host's memories. Occupied hosts
are identifiable by silver rings that form in the hosts' eyes.
Melanie Stryder is captured and infused with a soul called
"Wanderer." Wanderer is asked by Seeker to access Melanie's
memories in order to discover the location of a pocket of
unassimilated humans. Surprisingly, Melanie's consciousness
has not been eliminated, and it struggles for control of her
body. Melanie and Wanderer are able to carry out an internal
conversation with each other, forming something of a
friendship.

Wanderer does share with Seeker that Melanie was traveling
with her brother, Jamie and her boyfriend, Jared Howe, to find
Melanie's uncle Jeb in the desert. Wanderer admits that
Melanie is still present, so Seeker decides to be transferred
into Melanie's body to get the information herself. With the
help of Melanie, Wanderer escapes and makes her way to the
desert, where she is eventually found by Jeb, who takes her
to a series of caves hidden inside a mountain, where the
pocket of humans (including Jared and Jamie) is hiding.
Wanderer's presence in the shelter is met with hostility by all
but Jeb and Jamie. Seeing this, Melanie instructs Wanderer
not to tell anyone she is still alive, fearing that doing so
would only provoke them, though she later allows her to tell
Jamie, to put his mind at ease. Wanderer begins interacting
with the humans and participating in their harvest, and
slowly begins to gain their trust, as well as forming a bond
with human Ian O'Shea. Through this, she begins to
sympathize with them, and question her species' actions.
Seeker leads a search party into the desert to find Wanderer.
They intercept one of the shelter's supply teams, and in the
ensuing chase, Aaron and Brandt commit suicide to avoid
capture and conversion. During the chase, Seeker accidentally
kills another Soul, leading her superiors to call off the search.
Returning to the caves, a vengeful Jared and Kyle move to kill
Wanderer, causing Jamie to reveal that Melanie's
consciousness is still alive. Jeb and Ian accepts this, showing
concern for the two beings in one body. Jared refuses to
believe him, but, after having a dream about Melanie,
attempts to determine the truth by kissing Wanderer,
provoking Melanie to slap him away, and he realises that she
is indeed still alive. Kyle makes another attempt on
Wanderer's life, but he slips into a deadly whirlpool in the
ensuing battle. She pulls him to safety, but does not tell the
others that he had attacked her. Ian believes that Kyle had
attacked Wanderer and tells her that he loves her, insisting
that Wanderer's own personality (such as protecting Kyle) is
what he loves, rather than Melanie's body. Wanderer admits
that, while occupying Melanie's body, she must love Jared,
but that she has feelings of her own, and the two share a kiss,
creating an unusual love triangle—three bodies and four
minds.
Sometime later, Wanderer enters the community's medical
facility, and discovers that Doc has been experimenting with
ways to remove Souls and allow the host's mind to regain
control, resulting in the deaths of many Souls and Hosts from
his failed experiments. Traumatized, she rushes from the
facility, screaming at a protesting Melanie to "get out of my
head!" After isolating herself for several days, Wanderer
learns that Jamie is critically ill with a high fever and infection
in his leg due to injuring himself with a sickle during the
harvest. She infiltrates a Soul medical facility to steal some of
their alien medicine, saving Jamie's life.
Seeker has continued looking for Wanderer on her own, and
eventually attempting to murder Wanderer, although she is
stopped by Jeb, who then captures Seeker and imprisons her
in the caves. Wanderer offers to show Doc the proper method
of removing Souls, on the condition that he remove her from
Melanie's body and let her die. Doc uses the technique to
successfully remove Seeker from her host, with both Host and
Soul surviving. Wanderer takes the Seeker alien to a Soul
space-travel site, where she sends it to a planet far enough
from Earth that it can not return for numerous generations.
The plan is to continue freeing hosts and sending the souls to
occupy hosts on distant planets.
Wanderer makes Doc promise to let her die when she is
removed and not tell anyone, telling Melanie that she does
not want to live without her new human friends. Their friends
intervene with Doc, who then inserts Wanderer into Pet, a
human who was left brain-dead after the Soul inside her was
safely removed. Now with a body of her own, Wanderer and
Ian form a relationship, while Melanie is finally reunited with
Jared.
A few months later, while on a supply-gathering trip,
Wanderer, Melanie, Ian and Jared are captured. They discover
that their captors are actually humans, who reveal that there
are several other human groups as well. They also learn that
there is a Soul with this group that has sided with the
flourishing human resistance, as Wanderer has, and they may
not be the last Souls to do so.
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