Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The other science fiction epic from 1977.
Stephen Spielberg's superbly crafted urban sci-fi film which deals with how normal folk living their mundane normal lives might handle a close encounter with extra terrestrial life. Extra terrestrial life that for once doesn't want to take over / destroy / enslave the earth and genuinely come in peace.
The events which lead to the kidnap of a young boy shatter the idyllic norm and i kept expecting the boy to say "They're here" as he opens the house door to startlingly bright lights but that's a different Spielberg film altogether.
Richard Dreyfuss takes the lead as he witnesses at first hand a UFO but his wife and family think he's nuts so the film deals with paranoia and delusion on a small scale until the eye opening special effects spectacular finale which remains classic cinema to this day with it's Prog rock back and forth with alien life forms aboard their wondrous space craft.
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