When me and my friends were flipping channels back in high school we stumbled upon one of the strangest films I have every seen. The film shows footage that seems like real first hand footage spliced into a dramatization of the events. It follows a psychologist in Alaska who keeps getting clients who have suffered through the same strange experience. The experience in question are alien abductions that they are unable to fully remember. However, when they are hypnotized they begin to recall the events often leading in demonic tramu for the person. What scared us about the film is we did not know that the "first hand" footage was fake, the film does not outwardly tell you and the footage and tapes seem incredibly real. It is an effective technique in drawing the audience into the film. The film begins with the tagline "you choose what to believe". The film itself is mysterious playing a the psychology of the audience in order to determine what is real and what isn't. The film has two major religious themes. The first is the idea of a mysterious other, playing at the human notion of fear of the unknown. The film itself uses the myth of the summering language be created by aliens as a central point. These aliens could have been early Gods for humanity. Humans also create explanations for the unknown such as aliens. The second religious theme is epistemology. What is real and what isn;t is unclear in the film.
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