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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
This is AFI100 in 1998 The last movie on the list that I haven't written before, I finally came to a complete success.
The film mainly tells the story of the third type of contact between earthlings and aliens. The plot of the film is very trivial, telling the story in three aspects. The first aspect is a single mother who finds that her child is attracted by aliens and is taken away by aliens in the middle of the night. The second aspect is about an electrician who was burned by the light emitted by a UFO and gradually became crazy about looking for aliens. The third aspect tells the process of a French scientist and American scientist searching for lost ships and airplanes around the world, and organizing communication with aliens in the United States. People from these three areas finally gathered at the designated location of the aliens and witnessed the landing of the UFO and the return of the missing humans. The electrician was picked up by the aliens and left the earth.
To understand this movie, you must first understand what the name of the movie "third contact" means. After checking the information, the explanation is as follows:
In UFO, the contact between humans and aliens refers to the different degrees of contact between humans and aliens or UFOs. This name and the classification method behind it was published in 1972 by an astronomer and UFO researcher named Joseph Allen Hynek: Experiencing UFO: Scientific Investigation ( The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry) was first proposed. There are currently five types of alien contact. J. Allen Hynek only proposed the first three types of contact at first. The remaining two types are added by later generations, but these additional types are not generally unknown. Accepted by flying object researchers.
The first type of contact, witnessing one or more unidentified flying objects: flying saucers, strange light bodies, flying objects that are not part of human technology
The second type of contact, witnessing one or more unidentified flying objects, and bringing related physical reactions to the witness and the surrounding environment, the
third type of contact, witnessing a living individual, including the
fourth type of contact in the case of sightings of unidentified flying objects , Humans have direct contact with UFOs or extraterrestrial creatures in ways such as being hijacked, inspected, and subjected to experiments.
The fifth type of contact, named by Steven M. Greer's CSETI group, means to communicate with alien civilizations in a conscious, voluntary, and proactive way through human spontaneous or mutual cooperation.
Through the above, we can roughly understand the theme of this movie, which is to tell the story of different people on the earth seeing aliens. It is very simple. The film is just a sci-fi film that combines human understanding and knowledge of aliens and UFOs with the imagination of the editor and director, and nothing more. Therefore, the film does not have any profound themes, but serves as a record and display.
Although the plot of the film is simple, the film takes 137 minutes to tell the story, and it does not look dull, which shows how outstanding the telling ability of the director is. If you carefully analyze the plot, you can find that in addition to the story of the French scientist, the other two parts of the movie are about people's unusual reactions after encountering aliens. For example, they have insomnia, they look for explanations, they look for answers, they look for aliens, and so on. Corresponding to this is the incomprehension of family and friends, which is most obvious in electricians. The story of the French scientist is a panoramic depiction of various strange phenomena and uses various methods to render the scientists' discoveries, such as a cross-country race in Mongolia, people's inquiries when in Mexico, and so on. In addition to these three parts, the rest is to try to render the horror, strangeness and magnificence of aliens, such as the horror of single mothers, the encounter of electricians in the car, the expressions and actions of people who saw UFOs, and so on. All in all, this film does not have a main story, but a very detailed description of people's reactions to aliens, and the detailed description is quite in place.
Of course, if the film is viewed from another angle, it can also be regarded as a mashup film. It has laughs, special effects, horror scenes, intense chases and adventures. So, this film = a quarter comedy film + a quarter horror film + a quarter adventure film + a quarter science fiction film. In short, the deja vu scenes in this film always have a little bit, and it's a movie with a very mixed style.
The main content of the movie-aliens, not much to say. When I was young, I watched "UFO Quest" not less, and I also had a lot of exposure to UFO film and television works, and I also fantasized about aliens. But the cruelty and pressure of the real world made me no longer in the mood to think about "a foreigner". Simply put, I have passed the age of fantasy, and I have no mood and time to fantasize.
The biggest advantage of this film, and what makes the film commendable, is its spectacular special effects. The special effects of this film can be described by the word "awe-inspiring." As a movie released in 1977, it can have such excellent, realistic and shocking special effects scenes, which is really amazing. Even if the film is released now, it will not be inferior to Hollywood's mainstream special effects production. Looking back at the movies of the same period, such as "The Great Conspiracy" and "TV Station", you can imagine how avant-garde the film was at that time. Moreover, after watching the film, I realized that Hollywood is indeed a dream factory. There is nothing impossible, only unexpected!
The actors in this film are not well-known. The male protagonist Richard Dreyfuss is the male lead of "American Style Painting", but this time he played the role of his father, and his performance was quite satisfactory. His image in the 1970s was pretty handsome, and he seemed to be a handsome man at the time. The French scientist played by the famous French director Francois Truffaut surprised me. Before checking the information, I never thought that this little man is a world-renowned New Wave film director, but his acting skills are relatively average. Teri Garr, the wife of an electrician, looked very familiar. After checking the information, she knew that she had left a deep impression on me in "The Fair Lady" and "Friends", and she was still a beautiful blonde. It's a pity that The beauty has never been popular. Other actors are not familiar with it, so I won’t say more.
In general, this is a movie in which Steven Spielberg made his dream come true. It is not good-looking, but not ugly, but its excellent special effects can be left in history, which is why it was selected for AFI100. In addition, Steven Spielberg's movies have been watched more and more recently, and he found that in addition to making alien movies, he also likes to make some Jewish war movies. His creative space is too narrow, can you shoot something else?
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