Saturday, August 5, 2017

Curse of the Man Who Sees UFOs

If you have an extra ninety-one minutes on your hands, I suggest taking a look at Justin Gaar's 2016 documentary Curse of the Man Who Sees UFOs (available through Netflix, Amazon Video, and on DVD courtesy of Virgil Films and Entertainment).  Saying that this film is about a former filmmaker named Christo Roppolo who spends most of his life videotaping hordes of UFOs hovering in the skies above Monterey, CA hardly does it justice.  The film takes several emotional/psychological twists and turns the viewer will not be expecting.  You really have to immerse yourself in Roppolo's brain to fully appreciate it.  

As writer Thad McKraken recently said about this film on DISINFO.COM:  "So utterly strange.  I love how you see craptons of people constantly making the argument:  with all the technology available to us these days, why have we not gotten tons of good UFO footage?  These people have apparently never heard of the internet and should definitely watch this film.  This guy (Christo Roppolo) has so much UFO footage it’s ridiculous, and the thing is [...] he’s filming and runs into other people that verify they see what he’s seeing.  Tons of neighbors and old friends who validate his stories, and it’s tough to see what their motivation would be for doing so."  
And what does a man randomly setting himself on fire have to with all this?  Who knows?  Just check out the film and find out....


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