Technically speaking, the special effects of 20 years ago can be said to help us realize our dreams on the screen without looking too gorgeous. From the performance approach, "ET Alien" is far from being regarded as an age. Many of Pierburg's mature works are still quite immature. We should be grateful for that era and for the birth of ET, because it is precisely this immaturity that created the soul of ET. Starting with outstanding filmmakers such as Spielberg and Lucas, the development of film special effects is no longer available." "Fast" description, we can even roughly think that since then, the film has entered a mature period, since then, we have begun to enter the information age, and since then, we have grown up, destined to be 20 years Later, perhaps earlier, farewell to childhood.
However, some people are lucky. Although they have to bid farewell to their childhood, their childhood feelings will never disappear. Even when their temples are white, they will have the same dreams as childhood. A kind of innocence, a kind of nostalgia, a kind of parting, a kind of growth, this is what Spielberg wants to convey to us through the film.
The film tells the story of a group of children helping ET go home. "If you want to go home, you can’t go back." "People" looks a lot like a film without contradictions, at least the contradictions that would have been written in the film in the past have become vassals in this film. The film did not create a large number of "reactions" to prevent the development of "actions". The method of ET's contact with "comrades" is very simple, and there is almost no resistance. At the same time, although there are contradictions between the world of adults and children in the film, Spielberg did not demonize them, and even many of them are quite humane. It can be seen that Spielberg is not trying to separate the worldview of the two worlds. His focus is entirely on the relationship between the little boy and ET. The real contradiction in the film is that as the little boy helps ET go home, he establishes with ET. There is a feeling that is hard to part with. The feeling of wanting ET to go home and wanting it to stay around has become an element that really touches us. This is why it still touches people's hearts 20 years later.
In the first half of the film, except for the mother, the images of all adults are incomplete, and the camera's field of view does not exceed the waist of the adult. At this time, the angle of view is completely children's, and when the little boy and ET are on Halloween After going to the woods to send a signal, the image of the adult began to be complete. We saw the face of the man wearing the key in the opening of the film. He also told the little boy that seeing ET was also his dream. In this movie, this is the world of children and The first communication in the adult world, although they were still separated by layers of plastic film, it was at this time that the feeling of ET began to disappear from the little boy, and he kept begging for ET to stay. When we begin to communicate with the adult world, childishness will disappear from our feelings a little bit. This is a fact that we must admit.
However, Spielberg is far from a pessimist. In the following film, although this kind of spiritual connection does not exist, truth, goodness, and beauty still have not disappeared from the film. ET is still alive and escorted ET's action to go home has also changed from an individual to a group. Whether it can retain childhood is a personal matter, and whether it can retain the beautiful fantasy that gallops in childhood is a matter for the entire mankind. Although the shots of children flying across the sky on bicycles are not as unreliable as the similar shots in Harry Potter 20 years later, this kind of take-off that began after the strain of tension suddenly gave people a sense of complete release. , As long as you are not far away from your childhood feelings, this lens will definitely bring all the beautiful fantasy of your childhood to life. What you see is more than just them flying through the sky with ET, what you see belongs to yourself Your childhood picture, you will be amazed at what you once thought, and you will feel sweet and excited that you were once a child.
This feeling brings us back to our childhood state, but we are about to bid farewell to ET. One of the most memorable scenes in this scene is that when the little boy wanted ET to stay, ET put his finger on his forehead and said, "I will be here." Finally, when the spacecraft left a rainbow in the sky , Even the little boy's mother smiled with tears in her eyes. This is the charm of fantasy, this is the charm of truth, goodness, and beauty in fantasy.
We must grow up, we must say goodbye to childhood, but we can retain childhood memories, childhood fantasies, and the truth, goodness, and beauty of childhood.
ET Phone Home.
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