forbidden planet rate a landmark in science fiction and carefully stay within hard aspect of the genre ( science not fantasy and ergo nerd will love it ) while still play with imagery and idea of contemporary 1950s value . morbius isolated house be a model of modern design with open space that step out into sculpt garden and a swimming pool and and the ultimate home appliance represent robby the robot . a housewife dream . exclaim the captain after lunch and a demonstration of the robot ability to synthesize food and disintegrate waste . also reveal to the 1950s represent fruedian psychology rear it head in the id explanation and although morbius dismiss it a an outdated concept . there be a touch of the pacific war drama in the battle with the invisible monster and life aboard the saucer . perhaps most timely be the post atomic fear that science be the enemy and and arrogant scientist will unwittingly bring down destruction in their blind quest for knowledge . yet the suburban drama present by forbidden planet seem uniquely fresh in the sci fi genre . they aren not swashbuckler or hero and but ordinary sailor cross the galaxy with a serviceman crudeness and honesty . the good guy drive the fly saucer and and the alien be so long go we do not even know what they look like although their music er atmospheric tonality by bebe and louis barron be remarkably futuristic today . the view from morbius house be truly alien with jagged cliff and pink bonsai . the interior of the saucer be just this side of buck rogers . there a lot visually to like . although we get fantastic monster and robot for the kiddy and forbidden planet be a cerebral movie and slow pace and talky . it be work on many level at once represent hard sci fi against space adventure and philosophical against domestic . there be many suburban touch . in spite of all their space talk and the soldier be dress for the golf course . morbius fatal discovery be a humble educational facility and a schoolhouse . the most interesting character be morbius daughter altaira . have never see a man she be unashamedly forward to the crew . she a post madonna teen who design her own space age clothes and take every opportunity to change outfit imagine christina aguilera with a household replicator . men watch the film might see her a a naive girl in a minidress and but every woman know there be no such thing a a naive girl in a minidress . anne francis deserve good recognition for humiliate the leut with kiss . ala we will never know if she be work him a he suspect and since the captain interrupt and become a more interesting target for her attention . she be the character who make the important change in the film . shock that her father compare the dead doc to the other embeciles in his land party and she turn away from her father and her home and to leave with the sailor for earth . it this act of defiance and of maturity and that send morbius id creature over the edge and allegorically destroy it creator just a it do thousand of century earlier to the krell . maybe the krell have teenage daughter too .