Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Review

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Two parallel stories are told. In the kickoff, a grouping of research scientists from a diversity of backgrounds are investigating the strange advent of items in remote locations, primarily desert regions. In standing their investigation, one of the lead scientists, a Frenchman named Claude Lacombe, incorporates the Kodály method of music education as a means of communication in their work. The response, in plough, at first baffles the researchers, until American cartographer David Laughlin deciphers the meaning of the response. In the second, electric visitor lineman and family man Roy Neary and single mother Jillian Guiler are among some individuals in Muncie, Indiana who experience some paranormal action before some flashes of bright lights in the sky, which they believe to be a UFO. Roy becomes obsessed with what he saw, unlike some others, peculiarly in some form of authority, who reject to acknowledge their belief that it was a UFO in not wanting to appear crazy. That obsession both for Roy and Jillian is ratcheted upwards a notch when they begin to take a vision of a mound with vertical striations on its side as a key to what is going on. While the obsession negatively affects Roy's life as he knows it in its entirety, Jillian knows she has to find the answer every bit to its significant, peculiarly as it relates to her only kid, 3 year onetime Barry Guiler, who may exist more attuned to what is happening than the adult figures effectually him. These ii stories have the potential to intersect if Roy and Jillian tin discover where they've seen that mound before, and if they tin can overcome what they believe to be the lies perpetrated by those in dominance in covering up what is going on. —Huggo

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Potent emotional core that avoids Rockwell-esque sentimentality

When the whole expanse suffers a full blackout, electrician Roy Neary is called out to service some poles suspected of existence downwards. Sitting in his truck trying to observe directions he is suddenly defenseless in a bright light and the electric's on his truck fail. Shortly it passes and he sees a arts and crafts pass overhead. At the same time nearby a adult female pursues her young son who has wandered out in search of the lights that have been calling to him. Both adults are left wanting to know the truth and filled with half-ideas and images that haunt them – when Gillian Guiler son is taken, this becomes fifty-fifty more important to them. Meanwhile the military, led by investigator Claude Lacombe uncover planes and ships that accept been missing for decades and uncover hidden codes and signals in the mysterious crafts.

I am currently ploughing my way through Speilberg's Taken on BBC2 then I thought I'd give this classic another view but to remind myself how proficient Speilberg and aliens can exist. The plot is perfect for any UFO nut – the authorities are behind everything and know of everything. The story unfolds really well – the iii main stories complimenting each other and giving the motion-picture show a sense of pace. The strand with Lacombe post-obit events all circular the globe is the least personal (and thus least involving) but it is enticing us for the climax of the film. Neary's soul searching perhaps does go on a piffling too long but the emotion in the family situation is intense and his frustration and sense of defoliation is very existent. Although the thrid strand has less screen time the abduction of the child is a powerful scene and the emotion is well brought out.

The special furnishings are very good just the glue of the film is the emotional telling. This is Speilberg doing well – he never really gives into his American Apple tree Pie style sentimentality and the motion-picture show keeps moving along and has a real emotional centre to it. The climax of the flick always sort of messes me upwardly and I notice it all-time not to question it's logic on any level for fear of holes opening up all over it – just information technology does accept a sense of artless wonder to it, which I gauge Speilberg was trying to get across.

Every bit usual Dreyfuss does well under Speilberg and he is mostly responsible for keeping the emotion in his character realistic without being all syrupy and sickly. Truffaut is OK but it's impossible to see him equally anyone merely Francis Truffaut and his character suffers as a event. Garr and Dillon are both strong female characters for different reasons and the back up cast are generally very adept (including a expert handful of the Dreyfuss family unit).

Overall this film never gets me every bit one of the greatest sci-fi's of all time, only it is certainly a very good pic that takes `real' people every bit information technology's driver and not flashy outcome shots. That `Taken' seems to be slipping into Norman Rockwell type mawkishness is good enough reason to revisit CE3K.

• bob the moo
• Jan 24, 2003

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