Is this movie truly what it purports to be? or is it ...

Rating: Null/10 (1 May 2003)

You can watch this movie and take everything you see at face value but I don't really think thats what MNS wants. On the surface a tale of alien invasion of earth ("oh god how can we fight them blah blah"). Or my opinion is that its actually a study of madness from the inside. The family is suffering vast emotional shock and this is manifested in MelG character, in fact they are the classic wako madmen, only instead of ATF they see Aliens. Are they all mad? or just taken in by the head of the family spreading his psychosis to them?. Watch it again and see if you agree? the silver paper on the heads, the nailing up the windows, they're on the roof, "they" fight physically and can't go thru wood? redemption comes thru the most life giving substance we know. All the "signs" of madness are there... maybe it owes more to Greenaway than to (MR) spock!