The Wild Blue Yonder story
The Wild Blue Yonder is a 2005 science fiction fantasy film by German director Werner Herzog. Synopsis: A team of astronauts are sent on a mission to discover a new home for the human race. Most of the film consists of recontextualized documentary footage which is overlaid with the fictional narration of a man purporting to be an alien from the outer reaches of the Andromeda galaxy.
9 total · 5 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien brought pandemic | major | A team of astronauts were sent on a mission to find a new home for humanity after scientists mistakenly reasoned that a deadly alien disease had started to proliferate around the Earth. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | An unnamed extraterrestrial, who was indistinguishable from a human being in form, recounted how he traveled to Earth from the outer reaches of Andromeda with other members of his race to colonize the planet, but without success. |
| ocean planet | major | A team of astronauts discovered a glaciated ocean planet and explored its depths. The extraterrestrial narrator's home world was an ocean planet located in the outer reaches of the Andromeda galaxy. |
| space colonization | major | The extraterrestrial narrator described how he and some of of people traveled to the outer reaches of the Andromeda galaxy to Earth to set up a colony, but without success. Humanity began a search for a new habitable planet to colonize after scientists mistakenly concluded that a deadly alien disease had started to proliferate around the Earth. |
| space travel | major | A team of astronauts astronauts were sent on a mission initially to the outer reaches of solar system in search of habitable planet, although they eventually seemed to have traveled much deeper into outer space. |
| global cooling | minor | The extraterrestrial narrator explained that he and some of his people traveled to Earth after his home world experienced an ice age. |
| intergalactic space travel | minor | The extraterrestrial narrator described his voyage from the outer reaches of the Andromeda galaxy to Earth. |
| Roswell UFO incident | minor | The extraterrestrial narrator gave a fanciful account of the Roswell UFO mystery. |
| suicide | minor | The extraterrestrial narrator mentioned that one of his fellow aliens attempted suicide some time after reaching Earth. |