Unfortunately, while it may not be as irritating as much of what the director would later produce, the movie still does have its weaknesses. For one thing, as is almost always the case with Spielberg's films, Close Encounters is flashy and pedestrian. The special effects are genuinely impressive and well utilized, but they are not particularly inventive. His space monsters, for instance, are merely the pale naked children with big bald heads, big black eyes, and little lipless mouths described by countless wild-eyed abductees. Perhaps I am being unnecessarily contrary, but I would actually have appreciated something different, something a little creative. Be this as it may, whatever the shortcomings of the film's special effects, they are its most memorable component and are accomplished technically. That all I have to say now to talk about the important stuff.
The main themes of close encounters are set up in the opening scene. We are in a desert in Mexico, and a group of investigators arrive; they are trying to speak Spanish, and also interpreting for Lacombe, a French investigator who seems important , so the process of communication is immediately fore grounded. Some American planes have shown up in the desert and they look brand new, even though they are from a flight that disappeared right after World War 2. This vignette is one of several that show up in the story. Later in the movie this team of investigators looks at a tanker ship in the middle of the Gobi desert and tat a group of dharmsala, India who have heard some strange tones from the sky. This team is the friendly Lacombe.
After the opening scene, the movie moves to Indiana. Air traffic control reports a near miss but the pilots don’t want to call it a UFO. In an isolated farm house, a little boy (who we later on find out to be called Barry) wakes up in his room because all his electronic devices have started on their own. Mean while, an every man named Roy nearly and his family are having a typical night, arguing about what to do. There’s then a power outage, and Rye job means he will have to go out and fix it. While on the road, Roy has a close encounter and he chases the glowing object. He nearly runs over Barry, who is in the middle of the road; when the lights come back on, Roy has a sun burn on one side off his face. He drives home to wake up his family, but they don’t find anything. His subsequent talk about UFO and his strange behaviour lead to talk in his town and loss of his job.
you are then at a country farm house in the middle of no where no sounds besides natural sounds birds/crickets, there is only a limited amount of light but the light that is being given off is dark blues and blacks.
This shot of the house is layered and framed.
He is stood in a door way that seems to be light up by a small light, and then what seems to be a can falls and makes a sound then Barry lets out a heart melting giggle. Steven finally lets us see what Barry is seeing an open refrigerator food spilling out every where and that’s it. Then suddenly the cat flap starts to move extremely fast as if some thing / some one just went through it.