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A Science fiction fantasy of the creatures and their travails in ‘The Wild Blue Yonder’ the film is also narration of events by Andromedan the Alien, played by character actor Brad Dourif. An equally wild, fanciful and out-there element to the film is its writer director Werner Herzog . He has managed to incorporate the awesome, the bizarre, the fanciful and the reality into a mind-boggling mix that is the film. As much as a Sc-Fi evolutionary tale as a modern parable ‘The Wild Blue Yonder’ gives an alien perspective on life as we know it and a humanism to the fantasy as the story showcases the rise and fall of an alien species blended in with some truly breath-taking images.

A non-fiction movie if one can forgive the oxymoron this film is neither a run of the mill documentary nor an usual movie. In a style made familiar in his past film the Grizzly man he puts forth a believable blend of fact and fiction toeing the boundary between reality and fantasy. Most memorable and overpowering is the cerulean blue that is the home of the aliens.

The alien stands before the ruins of his civilisation and sometimes mournfully and sometimes hilariously recounts the tale of his race’s misfortunes. He tells of his race from a blue galaxy “way, way beyond your world� who, not unlike Superman’s race sought out space as the refuge from total annihilation. The film does veer from the believable to the loony but in the end leave the audience captivated by its magnificent visuals. They may be the shots of the astronauts of Galileo or the creation of Mr. Herzog’s super cool graphics, whatever be the origin they are truly worth seeing at least once.

Its got to be seen to be believed…that journey that culminated with that famous statement “one small step for man a giant leap for mankind� ‘The Wild Blue Yonder’ explains the fascinations and need for space travel by means of a Sc-Fi fantasy.

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