Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a science fiction film involving the first encounters with aliens. It revels in its own mystique as it never shows in any clarity the UFOs or the aliens. During the whole duration of the film, the tension and mysterious is almost tangible. It follows from a few different perspectives but they are all normal day-to-day people whose lives changed after having an encounter with UFOs. Over the course of the film, which is quite lengthy at over two hours long, their behaviors are influenced and they are compelled to a specific location. The pacing is slow as it tends to build up the tension and mystique for the climax. Even then, the climax's objective isn't revelations but on delivering more that leaves it to be interpreted by the viewers' imaginations. As a result, the film feels very different to contemporary films as there is no romance subplot, there is no violence, just a series of events that provides a deeper meaning to what is on the surface.