They did all this for their amusment. Theres no reason to shake stuff up, fly along roadd, make screws pop out, blinds fly open and other crapn
Just a bunch of jerks.
Maybe they were on an alien spring break.
shareSurprise twist ending: Andy Kaufman was their leader.
shareWe don't know the motivations of Spielberg's Visitors. They may be childlike, lacking an understanding of our silly, fragile little civilization; they may be benevolent, wishing only to awaken some of Earth's citizens as to the real nature of outer space; or they may be just curious (what is that row of funny, mail-box shaped things? Let's see how they stand up to a little stress test). We are to infer, from the 'return' of Flight 19 and the people aboard the SS Cotopaxi, that these people might otherwise have perished were they not plucked up by our friendly Paclid-esque aliens. We don't know. The screenplay just wasn't developed that far. This we do know. Sorry.
shareDidn't they have jobs to go to?
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