Fantastic Fest 2013: ‘Mirage Men’ a fascinating, if maddeningly vague, UFO documentary
The vast, unknowable nature of the unidentified flying object is at the heart of the maddeningly, and deliberately, impenetrable new documentary Mirage Men, playing at this year’s Fantastic Fest. If the truth is, as was once promised, out there, it has yet to be found. Mirage Men argues, in what may not be the most terribly surprising twist depending on your level of cynicism, that the United States government has fed into UFO conspiracy theories to distract from high-level and classified projects from breaking in the news. And while the initial revelations are somewhat damning, after a point, the lack of hard answers serve to infuriate instead of elucidate.