Official Denial story
An alien abducted man is enrolled into a secret government project to communicate with the sole surviving member of his alien captors.
22 total · 10 major · 12 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien abduction | major | Paul was abducted by Gray aliens. In general, it was explained by a general that military was covering up the fact that people were being regularly abducted and experiments on by aliens. |
| disintegrating romantic relationship | major | Paul and Annie's marriage was falling apart because of his obsession with UFOs. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | Paul befriended a Gray alien. |
| flying saucer theory of UFOs | major | The military was hiding from the public that they'd shot down an alien spaceship and recovered one of its Gray alien occupants alive. |
| government secrecy | major | The military was hiding from the public that they'd shot down an alien spaceship and recovered one of its Gray alien occupants alive. |
| husband and wife | major | Paul and Annie's marriage was falling apart because of his obsession with UFOs. |
| military related work | major | We saw what it might be like for military people to cover up the shooting down of an alien spacecraft. |
| obsession | major | Paul's fixation with UFOs put a serious strain on his marriage. |
| the decision to have a child | major | Paul initially didn't want to bring a baby into this veil of tears we call a world, even though his wife Annie was 37 and wanted to have a child very much. But in the end, Paul had a change of heart, they had a baby, and named it Hope. |
| the future of human evolution | major | The grand revelation of the film is that the Gray aliens were really humans from the future, implying that humans would evolve into Gray alien-looking beings. |