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In Reply to: "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" posted by rico on June 13, 2006 at 08:54:59:
...it has an ending that nearly everybody interprets incorrectly. Everybody tends to have that "warm and fuzzy" feeling about "isn't that cool that he was invited and accepted the invitation to be with the ETs" when they forget to notice that "The bastard just up and abandoned his wife and kids".I still like the movie but recognizing the reality of the movie's ending really puts a different spin on the situation, doesn't it?
Mr. Spindlelegs
"A record unplayed is a record wasted!"
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It's been a while since I've seen this movie, but didn't his wife and kids leave him, and not the other way around? He goes with the aliens because there's nothing left for him on earth...
Yes, the mother did take the kids to her mother's house to get away from the father due to him apparently "loosing his marbles". However, she did call him later to talk him into family counciling in the scene where he sees the TV news story on the nerve gas spill. The phone call ended with her hanging-up on him but we are never told anything like "she said she wanted a divorce" or "he will never see her or the kids again".Thus, when he meets the aliens, the scene shows him accepting their invitation without so much as expressing second thoughts about what he was doing and that he was abandoning his kids.
At least, that's the way I see it.
Mr. Spindlelegs
"A record unplayed is a record wasted!"
The father leaving a family is a common theme in many Spielberg films.
His wife took the children and left HIM.
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