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 | | In the process, Klaatu is cast like a sacrificial lamb, gunned down but technologically resurrected for a short time to address the international gathering of savants he has arranged to meet outside his spaceship, before reentering the craft and ascending into space. |
 | | Klaatu's only immediate allies are Professor Barnhardt, a humble scientist, Bobby Benson, a fanciful boy, and Bobby's widowed, broad-minded mother, who has experienced a personal loss that tested her faith and perhaps humbled her to accept the existence of a world beyond munificently governed by a higher power or powers. |
 | | Klaatu's mission of peace, the redemptive implications of it, his self-sacrifice in service to his Earthly kith, are all meaningful, intertextual notions that other filmmakers have used, whether consciously or not, to weave profound themes or messages into their tales of aliens far in advance of Earthman. |
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