Second viewing (I think); first viewed in 1978 (I think).
Strange electromagnetic interference affects household appliances. One man and one woman, in different places, are disturbed by weird mental images. They eventually get together for the adventure of their lifetimes. The Earth is being visited!
The subject of extraterrestrial intelligence is a conceptually interesting one. It is too bad that it gets such a poor treatment here. Barely anything insightful is produced, and it sucks as a mere thriller too. Some people have found its underlying worldview disturbing (Dale Thomajan calls it "psychologically unhealthy", two other guys say it is fascistic). I am not sure I agree one hundred per cent with either of those opinions, but I do find somewhat perplexing that the diretor years later directed a remake of War of the Worlds, an exact conceptual opposite to this film. It is a little like Bergoglio inviting Third World masses into Europe and the U.S.A., and when that produces the expected response and then some, expresses fears about anti-Vatican jihadi infiltrators amidst them.
Watched it in pan-and-scan.
Rating: 32 (unchanged)
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