9 out of 10
UFO is an excellent motion picture, in spite of the image associated with people who claim they have seen such a thing, are preoccupied with the idea.
The writer - director of the film explains through the voice of the main character that there are three vital, most important questions facing us, humans:
Is there a God?
What happens when we die?
Are we alone in the universe?
It all starts with a sighting at an airport, where some people have see an Unidentifiable Flying Object.
This would be rather quickly "identified" as an airplane and lies would make up a story that eliminates the possibility that another civilization is trying to make contact.
The hero is Derek Echevaro, portrayed with great skill by Alex Sharp, and he is a mathematician of genius.
When he hears about the incident at the airport, with his outstanding calculating skills, creativity, open mindedness, inspiration the protagonist understands that given the data, the statements made at the press conference following the arrival of the space ship are false.
Speaking of Arrival, the public might be reminded of the other recent, great movie about visiting aliens, Arrival, where the experts that would decipher the messages of the galactic visitors are philologists.
For this UFO, they would have to be otherworldly mathematicians, for the messages are in that universal language.
The film proposes some very original, well thought, deep concepts.
Derek is asked by his friend, Lee, about how he sees the visitors...
What would they look like?
Like nothing we can imagine!
This is fresh thinking indeed.
The hero has to make complicated - for the undersigned and the average viewer anyway - analysis.
He will eventually get some help from his advanced mathematics teacher, Dr. Hendricks aka Gillian Anderson of The X Files fame, another science fiction production, better in its series form than the adaptation for the big screen.
The teacher is annoyed with her brilliant student, for although he is the best she has ever taught, he has a habit of interrupting, aggravating others.
Young and brilliant Derek Echevaro is not the only one interested in the mystery of the UFO.
The FBI has a team working on it, led by special agent Franklin Ahls aka David Strathairn that is investigating the event, gathering teams of experts, but also following on the footsteps of the hero, who has discovered as much as possible from audio recordings, measurements and the coded message sent by the galactic guests.
The FBI agents even break into the room that Derek shares with his friend, apparently hack into the computer, trying to see what he knows and then to insert devices that would track his thoughts and movements, if I understand correctly.
Evidently, for thoughts it is just a question of reading what he writes, sites he would access, they cannot read his mind...not yet.
Alas, when he finds that there has been a break in, the student calls the police and they discover a bag with marijuana that belongs to his room mate.
Unintentionally, Derek is responsible for his friend going to jail, although he underlines that he has had no idea about the drug being on the premises.
UFO is exciting, innovative, intelligent, perhaps a little to clever and hard to follow at times, but it is understandable, the proposition is different here, we do not have humans communicating with extra terrestrials in the manner used in the rather simplistic Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven Spielberg, some decades ago.
In the Spielberg encounter with the aliens, some hand gestures suffice to establish such an unlikely rapport with the visitors from out of space.
For this more sophisticated, modern, excellent film it is not enough...one needs advanced mathematics to try and figure some of what they are "saying"- where they will come next for instance.
And even all the known mathematical means might not be enough to comprehend those who are so far ahead, they would not contemplate installing a Trump to lead their planet...
UFO is an excellent motion picture, in spite of the image associated with people who claim they have seen such a thing, are preoccupied with the idea.
The writer - director of the film explains through the voice of the main character that there are three vital, most important questions facing us, humans:
Is there a God?
What happens when we die?
Are we alone in the universe?
It all starts with a sighting at an airport, where some people have see an Unidentifiable Flying Object.
This would be rather quickly "identified" as an airplane and lies would make up a story that eliminates the possibility that another civilization is trying to make contact.
The hero is Derek Echevaro, portrayed with great skill by Alex Sharp, and he is a mathematician of genius.
When he hears about the incident at the airport, with his outstanding calculating skills, creativity, open mindedness, inspiration the protagonist understands that given the data, the statements made at the press conference following the arrival of the space ship are false.
Speaking of Arrival, the public might be reminded of the other recent, great movie about visiting aliens, Arrival, where the experts that would decipher the messages of the galactic visitors are philologists.
For this UFO, they would have to be otherworldly mathematicians, for the messages are in that universal language.
The film proposes some very original, well thought, deep concepts.
Derek is asked by his friend, Lee, about how he sees the visitors...
What would they look like?
Like nothing we can imagine!
This is fresh thinking indeed.
The hero has to make complicated - for the undersigned and the average viewer anyway - analysis.
He will eventually get some help from his advanced mathematics teacher, Dr. Hendricks aka Gillian Anderson of The X Files fame, another science fiction production, better in its series form than the adaptation for the big screen.
The teacher is annoyed with her brilliant student, for although he is the best she has ever taught, he has a habit of interrupting, aggravating others.
Young and brilliant Derek Echevaro is not the only one interested in the mystery of the UFO.
The FBI has a team working on it, led by special agent Franklin Ahls aka David Strathairn that is investigating the event, gathering teams of experts, but also following on the footsteps of the hero, who has discovered as much as possible from audio recordings, measurements and the coded message sent by the galactic guests.
The FBI agents even break into the room that Derek shares with his friend, apparently hack into the computer, trying to see what he knows and then to insert devices that would track his thoughts and movements, if I understand correctly.
Evidently, for thoughts it is just a question of reading what he writes, sites he would access, they cannot read his mind...not yet.
Alas, when he finds that there has been a break in, the student calls the police and they discover a bag with marijuana that belongs to his room mate.
Unintentionally, Derek is responsible for his friend going to jail, although he underlines that he has had no idea about the drug being on the premises.
UFO is exciting, innovative, intelligent, perhaps a little to clever and hard to follow at times, but it is understandable, the proposition is different here, we do not have humans communicating with extra terrestrials in the manner used in the rather simplistic Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven Spielberg, some decades ago.
In the Spielberg encounter with the aliens, some hand gestures suffice to establish such an unlikely rapport with the visitors from out of space.
For this more sophisticated, modern, excellent film it is not enough...one needs advanced mathematics to try and figure some of what they are "saying"- where they will come next for instance.
And even all the known mathematical means might not be enough to comprehend those who are so far ahead, they would not contemplate installing a Trump to lead their planet...
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