Joanna Robinson

Or is there someone else who's making that kind of earnest, wide-eyed wonder sort of storytelling that I couldn't think of anyone?

Hobbitsanddragons.gmail.com, if you have some answer to this.

But I was like, I can't think of anyone who's peddling that kind of wonder.

And are we as an audience not able to receive it anymore?

I don't know.

Well, so on the audience front, I think—

Like a really, really good time.

That's what Carlos said, our producer, that his screening was like really into it and stuff like that.

There is the sort of like LA bubble aspect.

For sure.

I know, especially when an aspect of the story is like,

The seduction and abduction of children and, like, traumatizing them.

Yes.

And taking control of them in a way that is just sort of, like, actually fairly sinister.

Like, E.T.

is not sinister to me at all, but this is fairly sinister.

Like, when I watch the footage at the end of this movie, I'm like...

these poor visitors, how could they be treated thus by, you know, our shady organizations and stuff like that, obviously.

When they, like, you know, they wheel out this sort of, like, decrepit, old, you know, alien, you know, I want to believe.

I want to believe that, you know, they wish us well.