2008 · drama · sci-fi · thriller
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Directed by Scott Derrickson1h 44m2008
A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides humankind shall be exterminated so the planet can survive.
Our read: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · sci-fi · thriller entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
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