THE VAST OF NIGHT is an indie science fiction movie that takes place in a small New Mexico town in the 1950s. On a night when seemingly most of the town is at the high school basketball game, teenage friends Fay and Everett, one an inquisitive switchboard operator and the other an ambitious radio jockey, get drawn into investigating a strange audio signal. The film uses limited scope to craft a classic straightforward UFO mystery, paying some obvious homage to The Twilight Zone in a couple moments but also distancing itself from retro camp with a haunting tone all its own.
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: The story doesn't rely on action or even much conflict, just the strength of the lead performances and a non-idealized sense of place and time. Fay and Everett are two characters we only get to know through the real-time pacing of an evening, but the slice-of-life moments spent with them and the curiosity they naturally share makes them quickly endearing and familiar.
POTENTIAL REQUESTS: I will be requesting Fay and Everett as a ship or a friendship, likely with some classic genre tropes thrown in as prompts.
The Vast of Night (2019)
THE VAST OF NIGHT is an indie science fiction movie that takes place in a small New Mexico town in the 1950s. On a night when seemingly most of the town is at the high school basketball game, teenage friends Fay and Everett, one an inquisitive switchboard operator and the other an ambitious radio jockey, get drawn into investigating a strange audio signal. The film uses limited scope to craft a classic straightforward UFO mystery, paying some obvious homage to The Twilight Zone in a couple moments but also distancing itself from retro camp with a haunting tone all its own.
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: The story doesn't rely on action or even much conflict, just the strength of the lead performances and a non-idealized sense of place and time. Fay and Everett are two characters we only get to know through the real-time pacing of an evening, but the slice-of-life moments spent with them and the curiosity they naturally share makes them quickly endearing and familiar.
POTENTIAL REQUESTS: I will be requesting Fay and Everett as a ship or a friendship, likely with some classic genre tropes thrown in as prompts.