E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial Analysis

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Film
The E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Film was released on June 11, 1982 and turned out to be a big hit. This is a fantasy/science fiction film. I will start off, by giving you a summary of the film, then will move on to discuss my thoughts on the religious elements of the film. As I stated above, the film took place in the year of 1982, so it is a pretty old film. I remember watching it as a kid, but didn’t quite remember it, so I ended up watching it again. The film is about two hours long, and is about this extra-terrestrial who is left behind on earth. While his stay on earth, he meets a little boy named, Elliott. Elliott and E.T.’s first encounter does not go so well. When Elliott first saw him, he reacted with fear and ran away and so did E.T. The following day Elliott decides to find E.T. again, so he set a trail of candies out in the woods. The trail of candies was successful, because E.T. ended up coming back to Elliott. Once E.T. came back,

E.T. was the only one who was not from that world (earth). A lot of people would say that both E.T and Christ were “extra-terrestrials” they both came from different worlds. So you could say that in this film E.T. was “Christ.” The film had a lot of religious elements, once you think about it. E.T. was friendly and caused no harm to people, but good. Another major religious element, I saw was the fact that E.T. had healing powers. In the film, Elliott gets a cut and E.T. heals him with just a touch. He also had other powers, for example, in the film he brought a dead plant back to life, he could manipulate other body to feel what he was feeling (Elliott) and he made Elliott’s bike fly a couple times throughout the film. We all have different beliefs, but if I remember correct Christ had healing powers, as well along with other powers. This was one of the 2nd major religious elements I