OK....You saw the Spoiler Alert....there are spoilers in this post!
Did you understand the two Spoiler Alerts?
If you are going to see the film....you might not want to read this!
The film is so Spielberg. Which also means that it is very good! It's 2 hours and 25 minutes....but I think it went pretty fast. The sub-plots are not important....suffice it say that the aliens have been here for quite a while....and they are really nice.
There is some dialogue on why it would be common sense that they would exist in such a big universe....but surprisingly....Spielberg wasn't that imaginative. In one short dialogue....they are all short....a Roman Catholic nun tells us that in this great extensive universe....why would God put us here alone? In reality....that the universe is so big....and God then created....'man'.....(generic)....it would literally have to be that there is a solitary dot of a planet with that creation on it somewhere in the great expanse!
The main character....one of them....a female....is a Jesus figure of sorts in that when she gets in trouble....she can just walk through the threatening throng....and she heals.
Here is an interesting thing....in reality....if these many and varied sightings today of UFOs....if they are real....which they very well may be....not much different than Marian apparitions in Fatima or Lourdes....then the demonic that exists right along with us....has here taken on the appearance of aliens....UFOs....for a specific reason....Spielberg's movie thus bolstering the belief in aliens....and subsequent doubt in the Bible.
In this film....the aliens at first take the form of very cute animals....a fox and a racoon and an elk and a cardinal. So Spielberg actually supports the theory that the demonic could take the form of aliens!
One last thing....at the very end of the film....it is stated that since the existence of aliens are now known and proven....that...."The world has just changed profoundly....and you....(we)....are not alone." I have posted numerous times....from the past few years....that our pulpits have to meet this possibility head on....and prepare....(for to the Christian it would be easy to do)....prepare believers for the consequences of what our government may someday reveal.
The movie ended....with the main character looking into the lens of the camera....and saying...."Listen"....meaning when these aliens come out....that we should listen to what they have to say....but God's Word....through Paul....tells us that if even an angel of light....(something appearing to have goodness)....appears to us in the church....and gives a gospel other than the one that He and others had already given....(which the whole concept of aliens are)....let them be accursed....and he goes on to repeat that warning....giving it an emphasis!
