Watch E.T. the Extra Terrestrial with a Child

Rating: 10/10 (23 October 2017)

I had the wonderful opportunity to viewÂ E.T. the Extra-TerrestrialÂ with my two daughters. When the movie was done, my four-year-old Rosie exclaimed: "That was the best movie EVER!"
I was a little worried about the movie being too scary for a four and eight- year-old. But then I remember my own experience watching it in 1983, at the age of seven.
What I loved about that first viewing experience was the fact that this was a movie from a child's point-of-view. Here was a movie that seemed to exist in my world of dirt bikes,Â Star WarsÂ action figures, and Reese's Pieces.
Screenwriter, Melissa Mathison, uses Christian imagery to evoke emotional meaning.
There's a moment in the film when the older brother crawls into a nook of the home while it's been enveloped by the plastic sterilization of government control. He falls asleep. A moment later he wakes up and notices the flowers that E.T. healed dying again. Watching it when I was younger, I was always a little confused as to why he fell asleep. The scene seemed superfluous.
I was older when I realized that this is an allusion to Peter falling asleep in the Garden of Gethsemane. Right after this moment, E.T. allows himself to die so as to save Elliot.
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