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Originally Posted by Gojirosan  It was a fictional alien invasion.  |
Hmm...Yes well I meant it may indeed be a good idea if aliens were real and were trying to take over the world....But as cinema it stunk because it gave us nothing.
It was an emotional void.
What made the other 2 films work, indeed the entire point,
was to see normal, everyday people, in the normal every day world we all inhabit, with all their little routines, quirks, problems, pleasures and eccentricities be wiped away to nothing but a blank, regimented nothingness.
The whole point is seeing Fred the sweet shop owner who waves to the children and gives them free candy suddenly, one day, ignoring the disappointed children and with a face set like stone.
And the next day those disappointed children now take no notice of Fred anymore either and have faces set like stone themselves.
Basic, everyday, humanity...wiped away.
But setting the film in a small, fenced off (literally), emotionally void, regimented environment, completely lacking any and all daily routines the audience can identify with and having almost no actual unique individuals....means the audience has nothing to latch onto, the alien threat is rendered null and void when we are given, on the screen, almost no individual lives and free will to lose in the first place.
It may be a 'true' plan the aliens would use...but as cinema it's a big black hole of utter emptiness as far as any emotional link to the audience goes.