#3: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
A simple musical phrase can sometimes feel bigger than a speech. In Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Steven Spielberg built an alien-contact story around wonder rather than conquest. Richard Dreyfuss plays Roy Neary, an Indiana electrical worker whose life changes after a UFO encounter leaves him obsessed with a strange shape he cannot stop seeing. Melinda Dillon brings deep feeling to Jillian, a mother searching for her young son, while François Truffaut appears as the thoughtful scientist Lacombe.
