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• Reviewed by conalltoal grade 10 / 10

  Compensation

  I'm giving it ten to compensate for the heartless, cynical, tasteless, idiots that somehow garnished a 1 or 2 star rating for a genuinely beautiful short. Ticks every box if you're a fan of short films. Hopeful, heartwarming, genuine, fulfilling. Worth every minute of the 16 provided.

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• Reviewed by valentinepagesteven grade 9 / 10

  I really loved this title. There could have been more but what it had was really nice

  I started the documentary thinking it would be 2 hours of some guy who loves aliens, some interviews with experts on both sides, a slide real of pictures to an oldies or techno sound track and then an ending with john not finding aliens. What I got was a real human story about a unique person who was searching for something to prove he wasn't alone. I feel like the shortness was really different and i'm not sure if it's what I would have expected. I would really hope that any piece of media could at least fit in a 1/2 hour slot and I think this documentary is no exception and wouldn't have drawn it out too far. I really have to think about weather me wanting more of this movie is a negative or not but I know it did leave me enriched from what I saw.

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• Reviewed by nebohr grade 1 / 10

  John Is Obviously A Con Man

  Apparently he's never had a job and has duped his grandparents into supporting both himself and his obviously fake "search" for aliens. In order for any signal he might actually transmit to be heard over the ambient noise of space for a distance of several light-years his junkyard / 1950's Hollywood props collection would consume enough power to run a small city and that's if the beam were kept as tight as a laser. I don't see it happening. The dead giveaway is the "transmission tower" we see at 03:37; it is obviously fake.

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