To add more to it, their father has left them, and the family is fractured and pained as a result.
But he also no longer fits as a true child-like younger sister Gertie, who asks her mother to reread the magical story of childhood belief and innocence Peter Pan to her at bedtime.
His older brother Mike is well into teen-dom goofing around with other teen friends. Elliott is stranded in his own way, between multiple stages of life with nobody else who truly understands him. stumbles into the troubled world of a young boy, Elliott. He does, however, form a critical connection temporarily on earth and that's where the film's true meaning blooms. One of them doesn't make it back in time.Į.T.'s sick because he's been cut off from the group for too long. When humans disrupt their gentle gathering of samples, they flee to their ship using some sort of psychic heart-based form of communication. They are, in Speilberg's own words, botanists. is a member of a species that comes to earth looking for plant samples. the Extra-Terrestrial' Credit: Universal PicturesĮ.T. the Extra- Terrestrial stands apart in Spielberg's super accomplished oeuvre as his deepest, most layered, and most artistic film. means, there is little doubt left that E.T. As powerful as religion and faith themselves. ending helps make the case that all the events surrounding E.T. E.T.'s character is a powerful concept of metaphor, even within the story. get sick? It's not just a technical explanation we are searching for, looking at the clues about his species within the film itself, but also from a larger perspective. E.T.'s death, and the circumstances surrounding it, are actually the key to understanding the lasting impact of this seminal movie, much more than just "kids' fare."īut why does E.T. Themes about death and dying are related to ideas of change, growth, and renewal, with implications as core to our existence as anything in all of the narrative. For a kid's movie, this is, in the words of the kids of the era, "heavy." the Extra- Terrestrial.īut embedded in the all-time blockbuster are some of Spielberg's most powerful messages and most abstract and impactful filmmaking.Īt the center of it is the deeply unsettling fact that in the film, E.T. Few movies have ever had the long- or short-term success of Steven Spielberg's E.T.
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