There have been plenty of alien invasion movies made in the last fifty years or so. Many people will argue that they are largely a metaphor to explore our collective fears of mutual nuclear destruction. But as we move towards a world free from the fear of indiscriminate atomic bombings, can these metaphors still pack the same entertainment punch? The remake of a classic, “The Day The Earth Stood Still,” proves the answer is a resounding “yes.”

It’s well identified that a lot of of the science fiction, extraterrestrial assault type movies in the fifties and sixties were similes for the ever mounting and overhanging danger of complete obliteration due to nuclear war. The original show addressed this straightforwardly, as the invading aliens came to give Earthlings a caution to either end skirmishing or face the rage of the aliens. Genuine to the original, the aliens came as council of a planetary coalition of sorts. But the Earthlings were in danger of not being included owing to their atrocious habits. In the first movie, the bad habits were warfare and nuclear stockpiling. In the remake, the wicked habits are environmental mistreatment of our own planet.

Our parable starts out with quite a few scientists being rounded up by some military or administration persons, we’re not sure which. They aren’t told the right motivation, only that there is an imminent danger, and the administration officials aren’t sure what to make of it. The scientists are bewildered to find out that there is some entity hurtling towards Earth, and if it isn’t blocked, it will undoubtedly annihilate everything.

They all brace for collision, and of course nothing happens. The thing turns out to be a giant space craft. And as the ambassador exits the space craft, (and is customarily shot by some trigger happy soldier) we meet the infamous Gort. The giant robot who is the emissary’s guardian. They take the representative to a government hospital, where he is to be interrogated.

They get a few answers out of him, but he isn’t here to satisfy questions. He is here on a fact discovering mission. Is the Earth worth saving, or not? This is his mission, and based on how he is treated when he initially arrives, his natural answer is that the Earth should be given a fresh start. And by giving the Earth a fresh start, he means to exterminate all the people, and let the Earth leisurely repopulate itself. Not good news for the current Earthlings, to be sure.

But a peculiar thing happens to this seemingly simply logical extraterrestrial from who knows where. The a range of people that he meets on his run from the establishment convinces him that Earth people are fairly decent, on an individual level. He concludes that since individuals are good, we deserve a second chance. But unfortunately, events have been set into action which he may be unable to stop. He tries for a settlement, one that may be inopportune, to say the least, but is much better than sheer devastation. This remake stays fairly true to the original, yet introduces a few new elements. All in all, it’s worth seeing, but not worthy of a spot in your own personal library. This one is unquestionably a rental.

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