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Reading of Ten Minute Extract from 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' dir. Steven Spielberg (1977) 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is director/writer Steven Spielberg's first film after the enormously successful 1975 smash, 'Jaws'. Its optimistic, benevolent, loving portrayal of alien encounters sets it apart from most science-fiction films of its type. This awe-inspiring film is one of the most dazzling UFO science fiction films ever made. I am analysing a ten minute sequence from …

…character. It is also a key point because it features the film's second 'close encounter', this being the close encounter which influences Neary's actions throughout the rest of the film. From this point he and other characters experience several 'close encounters of the second kind', that is physical evidence of the existence of extra-terrestrials, which finally builds up to the film's finale when Roy experiences a 'close encounter of the third kind', that is contact.