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Entertainment
The Vast of Night is a
Low-Budget, Sci-Fi Sensation
By Kailee Andrews for cinemacy.com
The UFO genre has always had a divided
soul, split evenly between bleak body horror
and wholesome tributes to connection. With
his invigorating period piece, The Vast of
Night, first-time feature director Andrew
Patterson parachutes into this divide and sets
up camp by offering a story that invokes both
the light and dark potential of the genre. The
film’s brilliant title sets the mood just right.
Depending on the reading and intonation,
The Vast of Night, now streaming on Amazon
Prime, could sound hopeful, full of starlight
and promise, or intimidating, tinged with
unknowable threat.
Set in 1950s New Mexico, this Twilight
Zone inflected story recounts the events of one
dizzying evening, in which a young switchboard
operator, Fay (Sierra McCormick),
Vast of Night, courtesy of Amazon Prime Video.
hears a radio signal of unknown origin.
She ropes in local radio host, Everett
(Jake Horowitz), to investigate and they
soon find themselves fielding calls from
impassioned strangers who claim to know
something about the classified history of these
signals, and the lights in the sky that accompany
The most winning element of The Vast of
Night is the way it infuses you with wonder.
It captures that breathless, fantastic emotion
so well, from the way it shocks us into stilled
awe to the way it animates our curiosity. Much
credit for this infectious energy also goes to
the camerawork. The first act is stacked with
ambitious long takes that establish the small
town and roving characters with verve. The
film’s most complex take runs from Fay’s
office to the high school where the town
is gathered to watch a big game (if they
could only fix the mysterious electric issues),
and beyond.
As you may have surmised from the
film’s stylized poster of a radio tower, radio
is a major influence on this narrative. And
it’s radio that creates the film’s treasured
pauses, where 10-minute monologues breathe
in near absolute stillness. Several times, the
screen goes black to allow complete engagement
with sound and imagination. It’s
a confident and assured maneuver. It’s also
aggressively out of line with most trends
in genre filmmaking (today, most action
and sci-fi blockbusters hold shots for an
average of 3 seconds, constantly refreshing
the visual field).
The Vast of Night is a film of complex
moods and messages. It’s enamored with the
restorative joy of Fay’s hope for the future,
but also full of reminders that the connected
world she longs for isn’t guaranteed to be
just. That connection, whether made through
radio waves or small-town sports, is just as
capable of fostering division as progress.
But, as the film insistently repeats through its
sound design and style, no matter what era,
face to face and voice to voice storytelling
will always offer some of our best hopes for
sifting out the truth. •
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