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On May 29, 2020, Amazon Prime quietly released one of the best sci-fi films in decades:\u00a0The Vast of Night<\/em><\/strong>. The debut feature from Andrew Patterson is a moody, character-driven tale about\u00a0making contact\u00a0with extraterrestrials<\/a>\u00a0in 1950s Cayuga, New Mexico. Inspired by classic news stories recanting strange disappearances\u00a0and\u00a0unexplainable objects flying in the sky,\u00a0The Vast of Night<\/em> focuses on two teens who realize something is amiss when they pick up a bizarre audio signal. With most of their town attending the first basketball game of the season\u00a0at the high school gymnasium, the young sleuths traverse the abandoned, shadowy streets of Cayuga\u00a0in search of the truth.<\/p>\n

Sierra McCormick and Jake Horowitz play the teens, a switchboard operator and radio DJ obsessed with technology<\/a>, respectively. As McCormick’s character\u00a0Fay settles into her night swift, she turns on the radio program hosted by Horowitz’s character Everett. Everett’s broadcast is interrupted by an eerie noise, the same noise Fay hears over her phone lines. Operating the behemoth switchboard, Fay eventually dials into\u00a0Everett’s show about the signal, and he appeals to his listeners to call in if they see or hear anything else. This opens up the proverbial floodgates, leading the jejune alien chasers\u00a0toward a shocking conclusion.<\/p>\n

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The Vast of Night<\/em> relies on mysterious monologues from callers to bring audiences into Fay and Everett’s reality. A black man named Billy calls in, and Everett interviews him live on air. Billy, a military veteran, shares details of classified projects\u00a0involving large extraterrestrial spacecraft and experiments with unfamiliar audio signals. Calls\u00a0surge from\u00a0the outskirts of town as\u00a0more residents see something in the sky<\/a>. Everett and Fay visit a caller in person, an elderly woman named Mabel, who claims her son was abducted decades earlier by the same aliens circling Cayuga. Eventually, Everett and Fay find themselves deep in the woods, equipped with only Fay’s brand new tape recorder, looking up in the sky for signs of life.<\/p>\n

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What makes\u00a0The Vast of Night<\/em>\u00a0so different\u00a0from other alien invasion films is its understated style. In lieu of action-packed sequences or violent confrontations, the film’s themes evolve from the perspective of two excited high schoolers who believe they are the key to proving alien life actually exists.\u00a0Elation, wonder, and passion fill every scene – from the wide shots of town to the close-up shots of characters’ euphoric faces. Beneath this baseline eagerness, though, exists a sense that Fay and Everett are getting in over their heads. The\u00a0dangerous consequences of establishing contact with the unknown haunt every scene as well.<\/p>\n

The Vast of Night<\/em>\u00a0draws many parallels to sci-fi anthology series<\/a> like\u00a0The Twilight Zone\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Outer Limits<\/em>\u00a0with its tone and subject matter. Like its predecessors, the movie utilizes a frame narrative that feels very familiar to audiences. As the camera focuses on a vintage television\u00a0where the feature presentation will presumably air, a narrator sets the scene, saying, “You are entering into a realm between clandestine and forgotten, a slipstream caught between channels…\u00a0You are entering Paradox Theater.”\u00a0The Vast of Night<\/em> returns to the TV set, as well as to the unsettling music that plays in the opening sequence, as the movie progresses. This self-aware narrative technique pays homage to old sci-fi TV while also\u00a0lampooning it.<\/p>\n

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Beyond these unique elements exists a\u00a0sea of social commentary that also makes\u00a0The Vast of Night<\/em> stand\u00a0out from its contemporaries. References to communism and the Cold War emphasize the paranoid, nervous nature of 1950s life<\/a>, fueled by outlandish politicians like Joseph McCarthy – who labeled anyone he didn’t like a Soviet spy. Instead of simply reveling in the pervasive sense of distrust at the time,\u00a0The Vast of Night<\/em> offers up a critique of 1950s America with Billy’s testimony\u00a0on Everett’s radio show. Billy says only African Americans and Mexicans were selected for the covert military operation he participated in, as the government knew a racially divided public wouldn’t believe anyone who attempted to blow the whistle on the experiments. Billy suffers from enduring health issues, and he blames\u00a0whatever he was exposed to in the desert.<\/p>\n

Andrew Patterson\u00a0finds compelling ways to draw viewers into his film with\u00a0just\u00a0$700,000.\u00a0Patterson’s minimal budget is used\u00a0for\u00a0maximum effect through sets,\u00a0sound design, and mercurial pacing\u00a0that require skilled camerawork.\u00a0Patterson and his crew managed to recreate an authentic 1950s small-town thanks to their meticulous scouting efforts\u00a0across\u00a0Texas. Frequent trips to thrift stores and discount bins\u00a0made the film’s impeccable costuming possible. The few special effects employed in\u00a0The Vast of Night<\/em>\u00a0don’t arrive until the very end of the movie, and they wouldn’t\u00a0work\u00a0if it wasn’t for all the atmospheric dialogue\u00a0that precedes them.<\/p>\n

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The Vast of Night<\/em> is a bold, audacious debut from Andrew Patterson that showcases his rare talent as a moviemaker. Patterson breathes new life into a\u00a0well-known genre trope –\u00a0humans\u00a0interacting\u00a0with aliens<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0by focusing his creative energy on how his story is told rather than on what is actually being told. Stunning visual sequences and engaging discourse between characters fuel much of the movie’s emotional undercurrents. Few films manage to achieve\u00a0the level of technical excellence displayed in\u00a0The Vast of Night<\/em>, even films with much larger budgets. Ultimately,\u00a0The Vast of Night<\/em><\/strong> returns sci-fi to its visionary roots by building a\u00a0world whose\u00a0mundane\u00a0trappings\u00a0are rife with fantastical possibilities.<\/p>\n

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