Disagree. "What the hell is going on?!?" is a valid way to grab and hold the audience's attention. We're super nosy fuckers, us humans. We have to know.

Come on. You know if there wasn't something in our psychological makeup that made so many of us consistently laser focus in on anything and everything we find squirrelly, there would no such thing as an internet rabbit hole capable of manipulating so many people. Nobody would give a shit. We'd continue plodding along through our day like any grazing herbivore you can think of. Focused on nothing but what's right in front of us.

Close Encounters played to that part of our nature.