“I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.”
I really really enjoyed this film. There’s something about sci fi in the 40s and 50s that is so terribly endearing I can’t deal with it. The story goes: alien lands on earth and inexplicably wants to talk to the USA president to arrange a meeting of minds (god help us if that ever happened with trump… we would be screwed) and this is met with hostility by all the dumb, trigger happy men of the world with the exception of one scientist, a laydee and her son. Gee wizz!
The funniest bits of the film were the way they all described the robot in the film as being an 8ft giant, but next to normal humans he really wasn’t that much taller… Also since it was a film made in the 50s, there were obvious themes of cold war tension with the east, for instance one of the characters speculated that so-and-so (not naming names) or you-know-who had sent the so-called alien and that it was the work of a country and not some outer world entity.. Oh and the space ship and the robot, and generally the special effects of the film were pretty advanced and they didn’t look like they had aged awfully, if you compare it to some more recent films even! But maybe you can’t really go wrong with bacofoil.. **shrug**
The film left with an ambiguous ‘well it’s up to you’ bit, which I really enjoyed.
Go see it. A must watch!
