Attraction story
Attraction (Russian: Притяжение, romanized: Prityazhenie) is a 2017 Russian science fiction action film directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk. The plot tells about an extraterrestrial spaceship that crash-lands in the Chertanovo district of Moscow. The Russian government immediately introduces martial law, as the locals grow increasingly angry at the unwelcome guest.
17 total · 7 major · 10 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien point of view | major | The extraterrestrial in human form Hekon struggled with the most basic of human social customs and conventions. |
| boyfriend and girlfriend | major | Yulia ultimately left her boyfriend Artyom in large part because she'd fallen for the alien Hekon. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | Hekon was a representative of a technologically-advanced humanoid race who'd traveled to Earth incognito to gauge whether or not humans were worth of being contacted. |
| father and daughter | major | Yulia had a turbulent relationship with her military-minded father Colonel Lebedev. |
| romantic love | major | Yulia and the extraterrestrial Hekon fell for one another. |
| the ethics of interfering in less advanced societies | major | The extraterrestrials were to refrain from sharing their technology with primitive civilizations that still engaged in such barbarisms as warfare. Hekon even made it clear that they would even blow up their spacecraft to prevent humans from acquiring their advanced technology. |
| xenophobia in society | major | A group of people led by Artyom grew increasingly hostile and fearful of the alien visitors hold up in their spacecraft and ultimately went on a riot. |
| coping with the death of a friend | minor | Yulia lost her best friend Svetlana in the carnage of the alien spacecraft crash. Artyom grieved when his childhood Rus was shot and killed. |
| first contact | minor | The military attempted to make a stereotypical first con |
| human self-sacrifice for another | minor | The practically immortal alien Hekon willing gave his life to save Yulia from being shot dead. |