1951 · sci-fi · drama
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Directed by Robert Wise1h 32m1951
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
Our read: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) (1951) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive sci-fi · drama entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured sci-fi / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- epic-stakes
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