My husband and I were intrigued by this documentary's premise -- how would we humans react if aliens did in fact visit our planet? Director Michael Madsen has created a hybrid science fiction film with a documentary. He has several talking heads who directly address the camera and us, the audience as if we are "The Visitor". These experts range from a director of SETI, former military and PR officials, a UN representative for Outer Space (who knew there was such a thing?), and various scientists from NASA and Europe.
The director earnestly poses the thought experiment to these experts -- how would you react to the reality of first contact? The former government officials try to... |