Its renaissance and beautiful

Rating: 9/10 (31 August 2002)

Did it ever occur to any of this film's viewers, that the majority of man to this day, still holds true to the thought, that earth is the only place in the universe that holds life? So being an alien from somewhere out there, thinking the exact same thing, but still finds the question intriguing, and has the technology to satisfy this curiosity, should be so difficult to imagine. One day they find out they are not alone, and want to seek out these new creatures (from earth), yet to their greatest fear, they find out that 75% of that planet, which holds these new creatures, is made up of what kills them the most, water.
So why did they come to earth? 1: We would try one way or the other to enter a planet, that harboured exterterrestial life, even if it meant exposing ourselves to a 75% acid atmosphere. I wouldnt do it, but your governtment might force their soldiers to do just so, even if it meant heavy casualties.
So 1 there is the curiosity of these new creatures. 2: they wanted to free the last of the M-class planets (yeah i know), from the decease it beared, the human being. 3: Maybe the gas they had inside them was an excess supply of love, that they thought could help the human species better understand the universe. 4: Maybe it was communication. 5: Maybe they lived on earth in another timedimension, and thought, just as we would, that the earth was theirs.
Whatever the reasons they came, its not the point of this beautiful movie. This movie is basicly about what makes us human; the need to reason every single move ever made in life. It is an overview of the first lingering steps of human evolution, into sentient beings. Building life up around illusions, is what spawns hope, not having an illusion spawns despair. Its all about reason. Doesnt matter what you base your reasons on, just as long as it makes sense to you.
Having a reason, based on what you deeply think is truth, is touching reality. And what we want most in life, is feeling real, being real.
These aliens made us real.
9/10