The Fourth Kind
Toing

Review by Toing

The Fourth Kind 2009

★★★

Watched 01 Oct 2015

If my dogged faith in cinema isn't well documented already, after this it will be. I'm not saying I "believed" this, but I went in cold, and ended up so freaked out by the insistence of truth that I had to immediately read a debunking. Said debunking of course turned out to be a bitter, sneering hatchet job basing its assertion that the documentary footage should obviously be taken as fake and worthless on that classic objective standard by which acting is judged: the genre of the film in question. It also insists that the film's attempts to pass itself off as truth are "offensive" to the audience's intelligence when such an idea itself offends the intelligence of someone who watches movies without a cynical grain of salt attempting to discredit them aesthetically or from some other, perhaps literal, form of validity, like myself. I'm so very sorry for being "stupid" by trusting in what art is trying to achieve within itself and not preoccupying myself with trivial extratext like whether or not it's "a lie". Douchebag.

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