Gruber Reviews E.T.

John Gruber, fellow co-host of the The Talk Show, re-watches and reviews the movie E.T.:

E.T. takes this to heart in a way that is reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2001 is cool and E.T. is warm, but in neither film is there any attempt to explain alien science far beyond our ken. There’s no attempt to explain how E.T.’s powers of levitation or healing work, or the mechanics of his symbiotic relationship with Elliott. They’re indistinguishable from magic and so Spielberg treats them as magic. (George “Midi-chlorian” Lucas could learn a lesson here.)

I wish John would write pieces like this more often. A great read that really took me back to my first time seeing E.T. when I was a kid.

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