Klaatu is an otherworldly human-ish being who arrives in Washington with an important message for the US but no one really gives a listen. He’s shot on sight and kept captive in a hospital, but of course he gets out. He’s looking for anyone in power that will take him seriously and help him get his message out.
He makes friends with a young boy, Bobby and starts gaining more perspective on humans and their surroundings; which makes him more worried about his message not being sent out. He doesn’t want to have to kill off Earth so he’ll do what he can to help. He befriends a professor who is highly interested in him and his mission and decides to help. By now, the military and everyone else is keeping an eye out for this so called “monster.” It’s not his fault the civilians are so violent and don’t have trust for anything they can’t grasp onto, seems humanity is headed in the wrong direction and might as well be the real monster.
The special effects are adorable, and I tried to watch this film in a way to capture why it’s a classic [as I’m trying to do with every other film in this book] and try not to let my knowledge, or lack of, the movie world get in the way. This generation is so used to everything being fast, and we’re always tapping our feet and jittering around in movie theatres when movies are moving too slow for us. I want to be able to appreciate the classics and see what people saw in these films at their first showing and it’s not that hard when there are such great movies as these around.
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