I did not know about the crowd-funding for this film. It is definitely a shame that so many people who "backed" this project are bitter about the outcome and have given the documentary bad ratings. I don't understand why people are so surprised when they have to pay a small amount for a worthwhile cause that they wanted to promote in the first place.
When I first saw the film listed on Netflix, I thought it might be like one of those "found footage" type fake documentaries because the premise seemed so outlandish. After reading a little more I realized that this was meant to be a serious documentary so I watched it. I think the real subject is Dr. Greer himself and his quest and not whether we have been visited by UFOs/aliens. There was an emotional undercurrent running throughout the film that may have turned off some viewers expecting cold, hard facts. But the "human" element in this documentary attracted me to it. There is such a glut of info out there on the subject of UFOs, much of it contradictory. Trying to pull it together and have it make sense for an hour and a half film would only result in a confusing, superficial mess. Each one of Dr. Greer's informants/collaborators could themselves be the subjects of a full length documentary, not to mention the tiny alien mummy.
That leads to my one criticism of the film: The 6-inch alien, initially presented as the focus of the documentary, was actually peripheral to the main subject of the film. I think this probably should not have been included and instead be made the subject of its own full length documentary. The doctor doing the DNA testing did not conclusively say that this creature was human. What he did say was that the mitochondrial DNA (from the mother) was human. The rest of the DNA was unusual and did not account for any of the strange features of the being including the elongated cranium, the facial structure, the number of ribs and the extremely small stature. He said he was going to continue to study it. He also admitted that there were other things he wanted to say but couldn't for fear that he would be laughed at by his colleagues. More reason to believe that there is something very unusual in the makeup of the little creature.
This film didn't claim to answer all the unanswered questions on the subject of UFOs but instead focused on Dr. Greer and his efforts to create a dialog with extraterrestrial beings and his attempt to enlighten those in the government about the cover-ups, secrecy, misinformation, and murders perpetrated by unknown persons who operate outside of any known organization. His methods are grounded in Eastern philosophy and Buddhism and combine the spiritual with the scientific. That in itself would probably make some people uncomfortable with the documentary and the information presented. We have been taught to believe that science and spirituality are diametrically opposed. Science is objective and based on observation and data while spirituality is subjective, faith based and therefore flawed. It reminds me of how Star Trek's Mr. Spock relied entirely on science and logic. Time and again, humans proved to him that faith and "feelings" have a part to play in every equation.
When I first saw the film listed on Netflix, I thought it might be like one of those "found footage" type fake documentaries because the premise seemed so outlandish. After reading a little more I realized that this was meant to be a serious documentary so I watched it. I think the real subject is Dr. Greer himself and his quest and not whether we have been visited by UFOs/aliens. There was an emotional undercurrent running throughout the film that may have turned off some viewers expecting cold, hard facts. But the "human" element in this documentary attracted me to it. There is such a glut of info out there on the subject of UFOs, much of it contradictory. Trying to pull it together and have it make sense for an hour and a half film would only result in a confusing, superficial mess. Each one of Dr. Greer's informants/collaborators could themselves be the subjects of a full length documentary, not to mention the tiny alien mummy.
That leads to my one criticism of the film: The 6-inch alien, initially presented as the focus of the documentary, was actually peripheral to the main subject of the film. I think this probably should not have been included and instead be made the subject of its own full length documentary. The doctor doing the DNA testing did not conclusively say that this creature was human. What he did say was that the mitochondrial DNA (from the mother) was human. The rest of the DNA was unusual and did not account for any of the strange features of the being including the elongated cranium, the facial structure, the number of ribs and the extremely small stature. He said he was going to continue to study it. He also admitted that there were other things he wanted to say but couldn't for fear that he would be laughed at by his colleagues. More reason to believe that there is something very unusual in the makeup of the little creature.
This film didn't claim to answer all the unanswered questions on the subject of UFOs but instead focused on Dr. Greer and his efforts to create a dialog with extraterrestrial beings and his attempt to enlighten those in the government about the cover-ups, secrecy, misinformation, and murders perpetrated by unknown persons who operate outside of any known organization. His methods are grounded in Eastern philosophy and Buddhism and combine the spiritual with the scientific. That in itself would probably make some people uncomfortable with the documentary and the information presented. We have been taught to believe that science and spirituality are diametrically opposed. Science is objective and based on observation and data while spirituality is subjective, faith based and therefore flawed. It reminds me of how Star Trek's Mr. Spock relied entirely on science and logic. Time and again, humans proved to him that faith and "feelings" have a part to play in every equation.