“The Fourth Kind” offers the
audience an interesting storyline
about alien abduction that is
backed with actual visual and
audio evidence.
In the movie we are introduced
to Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist
who
works in
N o m e ,
Alaska.
In one of
her studies,
several people
in Nome
are experiencing
traum
a t i z i n g
events in the
middle of the
night. She
decides to
record and
v i d e o t a p e
them to shed
light on to
what is happening
to this
town.
“The Fourth Kind” uses this evidence
to back up the events that
take place in Nome. They go to
an extreme extent to make sure
the audience knows that every bit
of evidence in this movie is real.
It stars Milla Jovovich (of the
“Resident Evil” series) as Dr.Abigail
Tyler,Will Patton (“The Punisher”)
as Sheriff August, and
Hakeem Kae-Kazim (“Pirates of
the Caribbean”) as a scholar of ancient
languages.
Throughout the movie, director
Olatunde Osunsanmi interviews
Tyler and talks to her about her
experiences.
Since the 1960s, there have
been more suicides and disappearances
in Nome than in any other
town in Alaska. The FBI has visited
it over 2,000 times to look
into these occurrences.
This film starts off a little slow,
but after the first 20 minutes the
pace picks up.
Several people in Nome claim
to have seen a white owl sitting
outside their windows. The patients
are hypnotized and, in many
cases, hysterically recount the
events that follow.
Video and sound clips reveal
shapes in the sky and
disturbing images from patients’
hypnotic states.
The actors do not
dramatize this film
in any way.
They play actual
video
along with
the actors to
back up the
evidence.
Os u n s a nmi
makes sure that
the evidence speaks
for itself.
“The Fourth
Kind” does have
some disturbing
parts to it, so if you
are easily scared or
sickened, this is not the movie for
you.
Christopher Speichert,
21, a networking
technologies major
from Bristol,
said, “I was in
such shock
that I do not
even remember
blinking.”
After seeing
this
movie it is
h a r d
n o t
t o
believe that there
must be
life out
there somewhere.
Seeing Tyler’s emotional reactions
also makes it hard not to believe
it is not real.
Speichert said, “That movie really
made me think twice about
abductions and whether they are
real or not.”
At the end of the movie,
Jovovich and Osunsanmi leave us
with this thought: “We should
develop our own conclusions
about this.” Can there be such a
thing as life in outer space?
“The Fourth Kind” is a mustsee,
whether you are a believer
or not.
The next time you look up
at the stars, just remember,
there could be someone
looking back at you.