It reminded me of a scene from another movie - The Abyss. A giant wave is forming on the horizon - ready to engulf everything in its watery fold. Suddenly it pauses and then recedes completely. The aliens who have decided to destroy the hopeless race that is mankind have realized that there is hope yet. And all it has taken is a 3 word sentence uttered by a man trapped thousands of leagues below the sea - "Love You Wife".
"The Day The Earth Stood Still" assumes a chilling significance because we are not very far from the scenario that has been depicted in this movie - mankind hell-bent on destroying the very planet on which it walks, the warring nations and broken, fractured relationships. The alien Klaatu is right when he says that "You are treating the planet as you treat each other"!
So the aliens decide that enough is enough. And they come down for a visit - in their little spheres with the mother ship docking right in the middle of the Central Park. (I personally felt that the grounds in front of the White House would have been a better landing site!) A crack team of scientists is assembled to deal with this situation. The president and vice-president are sent to a secure location and the Secretary of Defense misjudges the situation terribly.
The alien who steps out of the mother ship - Klaatu - is shot and then rushed to a hospital. The doctors are surprised at his human body. But when Dr. Helen Benson asks him the billion-dollar question "Have you come to save us?" he simply says "I have come to save Earth"!
The movie ending is predictable. There isn't much to this movie except the message - we change when we are at the brink of destruction.
But if we believe that then the question that remains is - aren't we at the brink yet? Because we sure as hell aren't changing!
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