The Vast of Night:
This sci-fi mystery movie is forged meticulously with major details upon its cinematography and single shot scenes with dialogues driving its major plot. Set in the 1950s inside the town of Cayuga, New Mexico, two young spunk teenagers , Radio Jockey Everrett and Switchboard operator Fay explore and investigate the peculiar audio noises on the radio.
As the town of Cayuga is getting prepped up for the highschool basketball match at night, two friends Everett and Fay have a conversation about pop cultures while they make their way to Fay's workplace at Telephone exchange. Everett makes his way to his own workplace in the local radio station where he runs a radio show. During the program broadcasting strange audio noises interrupting the show and hence they both embark on a journey to investigate the strange sound themselves.
The Vast of Night feels like a dizzy movie from that classic era, also set in a similar timeline director Andrew Patterson chooses to use that stylistic technique of those eras fully indulging us in the nostalgic ride back to the 60s hollywood flicks. The movie even tones down to black and white switching back and forth between it. The highlight is indeed the cinematography and the camera work by M. I. Littin-Menz. There are various moments of cinematic galore where the camera work which uses the extensive long shots to chase and explore the whole city of Cayuga framing everything from Fays workplace to the ongoing basketball game and finally to Everett running the radio show. Based on the various real life incidents of UFO sightings and disappearance, the majority of the plot is driven by the back and forth dialogues and the long interview sessions of the characters. Which might be a turning off for the people with less patience and mark it as a bore. But the patience finally pays off in the climax which turns into a thriller. Overall The Vast of Night is a visionary sci-fi movie with brilliant cinematic exposure.
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