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At the beginning of “The Fourth Kind,” actress Milla Jovovich addresses the came and tells us that she is the actress Milla Jovovich and that she will be playing a real person, psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler. That is because the events in this film supposedly all happened in Nome, Alaska. As anybody who has seen “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” might guess from the title, this 2009 film has something to do with aliens; UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek’s original three classifications have been expanded by others to seven, of which the fourth is alien abduction. It seems that while there are video recordings of many of Dr. Tyler’s, instead of making a documentary, writer-director Olatunde Osunsanmi, has combined the “real” footage with the recreations by Jovovich and the other actors. Throughout the film we not only switch back and forth between the “real” and the “dramatizations,” but often we will see both on screen at the same time. Additionally, there is a lot of reading to do in this film, because a lot of what is being “said” is unintelligible otherwise and there are also these annoying reminders that Will Patton is an actor.

Every since I started reading the novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, such as “A Princess of Mars,” which often begin with a declaration that there story is true or the author found the manuscript, I have been aware that just because something says it is true, it is not necessarily true. That applies to not only things like “The Amityville Horror” or “Fargo,” but also you standard biopics or any depictions of historical (a.k.a. “real”) events. I do not believe politicians or people selling products on television, but I am going to treat anything I see in a movie as “what really happened”? Not going to happen. But every since “The Blair Witch Project,” which successfully suckered a heck of a lot of people (including my oldest daughter) into believing it was real after seeing the “documentary” on television, filmmakers have been try
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