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wife saw Close Encounters for the first time...she enjoyed it but wondered why the military were so trusting during the finale...
tealfan
Sep 07, 10:26
I told here I didn't know why...I just accepted it all these years...lol
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tealfan
Sep 07, 10:27
Any society that has the ability to travel across the galaxy, is capable of destroying ours at their whim.
elchan
Sep 07, 11:07
Because Spielberg believed in a more benign world in which foreigners aren't treated with mistrust. Those days are gone!
numbersix_99
Sep 07, 11:50
Along the same lines... the movie was made when a more benign role for the military was trying to be imagined in the wake of Vietnam.
second gary
Sep 07, 19:09
Well, given that there were people preparing to leave with the ship (the people in red suits), and the fact that the gov't/scientist folks
amnesiac
Sep 07, 12:51
makes sense to me...along with the lat/lon the aliens sent, they must have sent other instructions/requests
tealfan
Sep 07, 15:22