An analysis of the human psyche

Rating: 8/10 (17 August 2012)

When I first saw this movie, I did not particularly liked it, it is not a good 'alien invade earth' kind of movie, there are many flaws in that as many pointed out, technology advanced alien capable of traveling through space would not invade sending virtually unprepared and unequipped troops to the planet, I know people have said that is a tactic to avoid destroying earth in a human conflict, but it does not make sense, there are a lot of technological attacks that would disable the hole earth defense system quickly without need to do it in a guerrilla type of invasion.
Anyway someone pointed out that most people did not get the movie, that there were no aliens, that the director intentionally misled the beliefs of the spectators to think in a way, and I thought, maybe it is true, and I saw it again, but there is a strange alien type being in the movie, and there are things on the sky, and signs on the ground of course.
So there are aliens, but when I saw it again, I thought maybe the director really misled the spectators, it is really not a good 'alien invades earth' kind of movie, because they are not invading earth, I think they are leaving earth, the aliens are not soldier ground troops, they were already on earth for a long time, somewhere away from humans, that is why they are not good fighters maybe they are just scientists and have just very basic self-defense skills, I am not sure, but they communicate with home with the signs on the fields, like they have been doing for decades, it is just that now they finished whatever they were doing and put up signs so someone comes pick them up. And they do so and go away... there is no major war, in the chaos and fear of humans some of them are killed, but I guess they knew that doing research in an savage planet might have its risks, like any researcher can die on duty going to the middle of the jungle, no big deal really, it is part of the risk of the job.
Anyway I think the movie is really more about human faith, what we belief in, how we perceive reality, and how we bend reality to justify what we belief in, how we put meaning in things we don't understand, how humans need to understand and rationalize things they don't really understand what their true nature means.
Seeing the movie in this light makes the movie much more enjoyable as an analysis of the human psyche. But even then I wonder if I am not the one rationalizing myself... :-)