Close Encounters of the Third Kind story
The film tells the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO).
20 total · 11 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien abduction | major | The aliens had abducted many people over the years, including some World War II fighter pilots and Jillian's son Barry. |
| descent into madness | major | Roy' wife fled with the children when he went bonkers over UFOs. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | The film concluded with some of the aliens coming out from the mother ship UFO. |
| family dispute | major | Roy lost his job and then became obsessed with UFOs and it resulted utter chaos for his family. |
| first contact | major | The government prepared to make contact with UFO flying aliens at Devils Tower in Wyoming. |
| flying saucer theory of UFOs | major | The film was about some ordinary people in Indiana encountering a UFO. |
| government secrecy | major | The government kept information about UFOs from the public and faked an industrial accident in order to get people to evacuate from the Devils Tower region of Wyoming in anticipation of a UFO encounter there. |
| husband and wife | major | Roy Neary and Ronnie Neary. |
| incompatible modes of communication | major | Much of the film concerned a team of investigators trying to decode a cryptic transmission from the UFOs. |
| mother and son | major | Jillian Guiler and Barry. Ronnie Neary and her two young sons. |