Beyond the Spectrum: Being Taken

If you are curious about UFO's and Science Beyond the Spectrum... is for you. I've done research on this subject and this film is spot on!

Here's guessing that directors Darcy Weir and Lee Lustig will find their film - Beyond The Spectrum: Being Taken - heavily watched. They've hit apparent pay dirt with the latest in a long line of alien docs dating back to episodes of In Search Of, and this one is done particularly well. Of equal importance is the fact that the UFO/alien space is a documentary sub-genre with an absolutely insatiable historical audience that isn't going away.

Kudos to Weir and Lustig for narrowing the usually broad UFO-driven scope just a bit, as Beyond The Spectrum maintains a focus primarily on abduction scenarios. We see testimony here that whether freshly captured or historically aggregated tells a crisp and compelling story. These people - from the abductees themselves to those in the scientific community privy to their cases - project in a way that our values tell us is truthful were we to watch these same revelations recounted from the witness stand. It's this carefully curated selection of interview material - along with fast-paced, informational, "what if" narration - that drives this film past its more dubious pretenders.

Before even giving it a chance, the cynic may have seen or passed subjective judgement on enough alien documentary offerings to preemptively write off any new submissions as nothing more than additional 2AM Cheetos-and-weed fodder. To each their own, but in a testament to the pacing and writing embedded in Beyond The Spectrum: Being Taken, this is an abduction doc that I found sharply engaged parts of the brain while allowing others to unplug. Highly recommended.

Beyond the Spectrum - Being Taken is a fascinating and thought provoking look at alien abduction. In the past. I've watched a few films and TV shows about UFO abductions but I've always taken them as entertainment and nothing else. This movie challenged my assumptions. Personally, I've never believed in aliens, but if space is infinite then it has to be possible that some other form of life may exist somewhere. Being Taken uses a compilation of footage from different sources which gives it almost a found footage effect. Overall it is very entertaining and really funny at times. The various testimonies tell a compelling story and the 'abductees' themselves come across as being truthful and credible. Whatever your take on the subject, even if you are a skeptic like me, you will find this film thoroughly thought provoking!

In 1977 filmmaking impresario Steven Spielberg gave us "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". At the end of that movie the character played by Richard Dreyfuss is shown entering into a colossal flying ship, which transports him and other humans into the night sky. This is classified in the "ufology" field as a close encounter of the fourth kind, alien abduction.

The documentary "Beyond The Spectrum-Being Taken" investigates several incidents spanning a number of decades in which people claim to have seen, and many actually to have been physically taken (some even insisting they were bodily probed), by alien beings. Among the most prominently publicized of these alleged events, and which this production chronicles, involves the story of New Hampshire couple Betty and Barney Hill in the 1960s. The Hills reportedly recalled in considerable and striking detail their individual and collective abduction experience both before and during clinically conducted sessions of hypnosis.

Okay. So either you believe or you don't when it comes to UFOs and aliens, right? Or, as is alluded to in "Beyond The Spectrum-Being Taken", there exists a third option. A sort of gray area. Not complete acceptance. But not slam-the-door-shut dismissal either.

You'll find me residing there.

This is movie that explores the possibly of life on another planet through recorded sightings of UFO and human abductions. When I was done with this film I must say I was quite taken with the level of research and how through said research was done.

It leaves the audience swinging just a little more in the direction human abductions being a real thing. And parts the tone swift form academic to eerie to hypothetical scenarios that are supported by the first hand testimony and experts in the field.

My by far favorite thing are the first person alien abduction testimonies!