War of the Worlds was directed by Steven Spielberg and deals with the question, what is aliens attacked us? Spielberg explores this idea and shows us how he thinks people would react to such a situation. It is interesting to see what everyone does when they see the destructive tripods. In the very beginning people are just very confused and dumbstruck, they just stand still and stare. But then when the aliens start firing their vaporizing lazers everybody erupts in a storm of panic. Spielberg shows everyone as throwing all of the rules away and doing anything to survive when this enormous disaster strikes. If such a disaster were to happen today in real life, it probably wouldn't be an alien invasion, but would people react in such a way? In the film Tom Cruise's character, Ray is trying desperately to get to Boston with his two kids as they cross through a very dense crowd of people trying to do the same thing in just about the only working car due to an electrical storm. The mob crowds the car screaming for a ride. They break the windows and an enormous fight breaks loose. Ray loses the car to someone with a gun and one person even gets shot and killed over the car. It is crazy how people in a mob react when such a disaster occurs and scary to think that something like that can turn good people into monsters fighting for every chance of survival.
One of the very last scenes of the movie still really confuses me. In the scene the camera zooms in on I think it is a leaf at first but it keeps zooming in on the leaf until we see the basic atoms and elements that make up the leaf. While they do this they explain what killed all of the alien tripods. They say that as soon as the aliens landed here they were doomed. They say that it is our life that has killed all of the tripods. I think this is very ridiculous, are the aliens allergic to us or what? How can such a sophisticated creature with this amazing technology just die? Ray defetes one of the many tripods, makes it to Boston, and somehow they are safe and the humans have won the war. I hated the ending, but am still confused. Maybe I am missing something and if someone could clarify the ending that would be great.
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Just one think I would like to say is that the film was based on a novel so that maybe the reason for the unclear ending. It is possible that Spielberg had little or no control over the script. Good read Chris! I think we just about shared the same opinion on the film.
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