E.T. (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #40 extract: E.T. (1982)

E.T is Spielberg at his absolute best. Heart-breaking, heart-warming, all at once, and brilliantly so. 

This is, in some senses, a film about losing someone (for Elliot it is his father), and then going on an adventure that teaches you how to make a new great friend, but also how to fight to let them go. This is then a story that is as much about building something as it is about seeing it evaporate, yet all whilst retaining faith in memory and hope in what has passed, knowing that, in the abstract, someone can always live on through you. For the way in which this is captured through a child's eyes, and with one of the most magical scores ever composed for a movie, it is undeniable that this is a classic and a Hollywood masterpiece.