While driving through the desert with his wife Carol Marvin to a military base to send the eleventh While driving through the desert with his wife Carol Marvin to a military base to send the eleventh rocket to the orbit of Earth for helping the exploration of the outer space in the Operation Sky Hook, Dr. Russell A. Marvin and Carol see a flying saucer and accidentally records a message in their tape recorder. Once in the base, Dr. Russell is informed by his father-in-law and general that the ten first satellites had mysteriously felt on Earth. When Dr. Russell decodes the message, he encounters the aliens that ask him to schedule a meeting with the leaders of Earth in Washington in 56 days with the intention to invade Earth without panicking the population. Dr. Russell develops an anti-magnetic weapon that becomes that last hope of human race against the hostile aliens.详情
这个题材,做成这样,真的很不容易了。尤其是Donald E. Keyhoe,科特· 西奥德梅克,乔治·沃辛·耶茨,伯纳德·戈登在这部影片中下了很大功夫,在影像上非常有特点,大量的特写镜头、跟拍、手持,以及碎片式剪辑,营造出强烈的恐慌与不安感。这种情绪,其实就是角色在片中的情绪,它以影像的方式,最直接延伸给观众,非常喜欢Hugh,Marlowe,Joan,Taylor,Donald,Curtis,你是最棒的!