我们并不孤单

We are not alone With Steven Spielberg’s new extraterrestrial film Disclosure Day just out, it’s the ideal time to watch his earlier take on the topic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind – perhaps the perfect UFO film, says film columnist Bethan Ackerley In Close Encounters, humanity makes contact with alien life Close Encounters is remembered for a lot of things, not least for popularising ufologist J. Allen Hynek’s categorisation system for supposed alien sightings. The film’s virtues are manifest; the spacecraft’s prog-rock visuals are reason alone to watch it. It captures the quintessential Spielberg: a sentimentalist who lurches into brief, thrilling bouts of cynicism. “IF YOU believe, it’s science fact; if you don’t believe, it’s science fiction. …