This movie was made in 1982. The plot has tears.
It subverts the usual theme of human fear of aliens, focuses on a kind-hearted family, and creates a fictional science fiction story about humans and aliens getting along with each other. I missed it at the beginning and didn't watch it. I watched it when I started with ET and the little girl learned the alphabet and even the words of the phone. In the comics ET watched, humans intended to eliminate aliens, but he was lucky to meet the love of the protagonist's family of three children.
Originally, the impression of the American plot was that the eldest brother in the family would always make trouble and fight against his younger siblings, which became part of the contradiction in the plot of the work. But the eldest brother in this play likes ET as much as his younger brothers and sisters, and it has played a great role in promoting the plot. This role is also a manifestation of responsibility in the family. When ET disappeared in the forest, the eldest brother stumbled desperately to find him on a bicycle, and finally found him weak in the stream. And the little boy Elliot, the protagonist of the whole play, when the doctors rescued ET, saved the dying ET on the next hospital bed. The plot of the two people saying "stay" to each other made people cry. Presumably, when ET said the words "Elliott, stay", it would feel that the Elliott family was actually his "home".
On Halloween, they dressed ET as a little ghost in white sheets. On the way, they met human beings dressed as aliens. ET kept saying "home" and "home". When the little boy said "ET, I love you" at the end, ET's first sentence when he woke up was also "call home" frantically. In the end, the Elliott family also played a role in sending ET home. A wonderful drama. The longing for home and the urgency to go home are the emotions that ET mainly expresses in this drama, and it is also the main task of the drama: sending aliens back to their own planet and home.
The reason why American movies can be popular all over the world and is less affected by cross-cultural communication is also because the things it conveys have commonalities on a global scale and are shared by human beings. Just like in such sci-fi movies, although there is a strong American sci-fi atmosphere, most of these plots are not affected by cross-cultural influences, such as missing family, feelings for friends, and love scenes seen on TV. This is the emotion that viewers have as human beings.
Therefore, this entire film expresses American landscapes and life patterns on the outside, but conveys the most simple and gentle human emotions on the inside. This may be a microcosm of American classic films that are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and can be widely disseminated. The artistic products produced by finding the commonalities of human emotions have a high probability of being able to obtain more universal favorites.
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