In the end, what you believe is yours to decide

The Fourth Kind starts out with Milla appearing on screen and telling you that the following movie is based on events that occured back in 2000, and that the director has spliced in actual footage and audio recordings from not only interviews, but those police car mounted cameras, depicting these events.

It's so genius that I got a hint of watching the original Hulk movie by Ang Lee: the frame would get split between the movie re-enactment and the archived footage, sometimes expanding one while shrinking the other, as well as adding different angles and shuffling them around the screen. The mechanic was implemented really well, and added to the movie. The audio recordings would be played, then the movie re-enactment would pick it up, or sometimes they were being played at the same time, just to show you how faithful they were being.

When they give you the warning at the beginning of the movie that it was going to be disturbing, you are that much more engaged believing these are true events. Some of the imagery was indeed terrifying, and as I tried to sleep that night images would flash into my mind: other worldly-possession, levitation and the voices. It was all great. It's not often that movies stick with me in this way and for that, I have to give it credit. While many of the events were questionable, the idea that they actually occurred is something you can choose to lose yourself into.