According to Gerald Dipego, the movie's screenwriter, this story was a result of a dream he had which involved a family picture of a mother, a father and a young son where “…the son's image began to fade,” then the other figures slowly disappeared too.

The film is actually about a mother who never forgets she had a son. Her husband, psychiatrist, neighbors, and even friends believe she is sick or delusional because their memory was somehow tampered with to erase all memory of Telly Parretta(Julianne Moore) ever having a son. But the bond between a mother and child is strong, such is the message this film somehow projects to the audience; that Telly can never forget she has a child.

As expected, this film was one of the best thriller films I've seen during my college days. However disturbing it is to me when thinking of the possibility of such things. You might say my overactive /imaginative mind is taking over me but this movie made me think. How dare they make a supernatural film by using UFO elements in the movie? It somehow scared me that this film may have a sense of truth. If it hadn't been for the movie's website my mind wouldn't get relieved to find out this was just a figment of someone's dream.

I just couldn't believe someone could come up with this kind of story. Let's just say, the special effects and the actors made this a very convincing movie, and that each music aptly fits the scenes, and that if it were treated differently, it may not be a movie worth watching. Even the overall feel and setting of the movie contributed to the emotions they wanted the viewers to grasp.

The movie employs juggling shots (shaking or unsteady-like scenes), which are quite unnoticeable when you're steady and just sitting down. It might not be important to other people but it does contribute to the feeling of being lost or having an "unstable" state of mind.

Ah heck, you don't want me getting into technicalities and such so yes, this movie is great. This movie is really worth watching. The ending is not that disappointing unlike one movie I saw which had a tragic and unhopeful ending. Truly, a movie that ends badly and somehow has no happy ending sucks. Obviously this is not one of those done in bad taste. It's not a big budgeted film but still it turned out great.

As with all films, it does have some flaws. Take the case of using wallpaper for covering up evidence of having had a child. I mean they're aliens right? But perhaps they wanted to establish doubt in the involvement of aliens in that situation - maybe. Another thing I found preposterous was Telly running after her son. I mean, somewhere in the movie it was said that "humans are treated much like laboratory rats," but they shouldn't need to show her running and running and running AND running after her son like some brainless rat in some kind of experiment. Humans are not stupid like animals. That's what makes us different from other living things, we can think. Yes you can justify this situation as the mother being anxious blah blah blah but I still think this part wasn't given much thought on.

Anyway, there are people who may not see this as a great film because the story lacks depth. But it does have depth, it is not a normal film, it is a supernatural film where the normal things in life are missing. There are many impossibilities that arise as the movie progresses. It may seem illogical to some but that is the aim of the movie, that there are more things we don't know that exists out there. I may sound X-Files-ish but that is what it somehow projects to most people.

If you want a movie that makes you think, this is it.