Independence Day story
The film focuses on disparate groups of people who converge in the Nevada desert in the aftermath of a worldwide attack by an extraterrestrial race of unknown origin. With the other people of the world, they launch an all-out counterattack on July 4—Independence Day in the United States.
29 total · 2 choice · 6 major · 21 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| attack from outer space by a genocidal enemy | choice | The film concerns humanity's efforts to repel an attack by powerful aliens who intend to exterminate everyone and take the Earth for themselves. |
| factions joining forces against a common enemy | choice | The film pointedly culminates with the countries of the world joining forces to defeat a seemingly invincible alien armada that was hellbent on exterminating the human race. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | Space aliens launched a full scale assault on Earth. |
| facing an overpowering adversary | major | Prospects for humanity did not look good when a multiple alien saucers, each fifteen miles wide, destroyed Earth's major cities, but in the end it was the human race that prevailed. |
| government secrecy | major | Much was made of a faction of the government having kept secret that an alien spaceship had been recovered in 1947 and was being held at the Area 51 military base. |
| military related work | major | The viewer is shown through the experiences of the Marine F/A-18 pilot Captain Steven Hiller what it might be like for an individual military personnel to have to fight against overwhelming odds to defeat an enemy. |
| romantic love | major | Steven Hiller married his loving girlfriend, and ultimately wife, Jasmine. President Whitmore and his loving wife, First Lady Marilyn Whitmore. |
| war | major | The nations of the world found themselves united in a desperate war of survival against a formidable alien armada. |
| alcohol abuse | minor | The Vietnam War veteran Russell Casse was an alcoholic former fighter pilot. |
| alien abduction | minor | The area drunk Russell was ridiculed for insisting that he'd been abducted by space alien. But it was he who had the last laugh when an armada of alien flying saucers descended upon the Earth. |