The shaking and rattling of mailboxes and railroad signal poles is ridiculous…makes no sense at all…but the first 100 seconds are perfect. The set-up comes when the first pair of headlights comes along, Richard Dreyfuss signals him and the guy pulls up and yells “you’re in the middle of the road, jackass!” And then the payoff: A second “car” appears behind Dreyfuss’s truck, he signals it to go around and….
If only the rest of Close Encounters was this clever, this subtle.