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If I were there at the first screening of the movie (of course no man has ever been on the moon during that time), maybe I would also let my imagination wander about life-forms in the moon.
But of course, even I am not sure of how I'd react--I might be still as skeptical as I've always been, and never consider it at all, and just appreciate the movie as an entertaining piece of fiction.
Even so, I like the creative way the moon was thought of in this movie. We already know by now that the moon is dead and without life-form (or water, or snow) and there can never be giant mushrooms and green people underground (wait..what if there are?). I felt sorry for the poor Moon whose face got hit by the rocket.
I'll see this movie then as an evidence of the human desire to explore the unknown. Humans love discovering new things and telling them to others--they never get tired of wondering what things beyond Earth are like. I will also see it as proof that we've always believed that we can never be alone--the universe is too big for a small amount of human beings--surely there must be other "people" out there, and surely they must be wondering whether we exist as well.
This movie is just one of the first alien movies that will continue until the present day. It makes me wonder though, that in every alien movie I see, there never was a movie where the aliens and humans weren't belligerent. It interests me that even though humans want to find other beings in the universe (and in the movies, they assume that aliens wanted the same as well), when they finally meet they couldn't stand each other. So, does that mean that life-forms want to find other life-forms for the purpose of killing them off, so only a single life-form will perpetuate? In the end, is it just a competition of greedy beings that desire to claim the whole universe to themselves?
That's a very big plate to keep to oneself.
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