![]() Almost a decade later, “Star Wars” used a similar array of special effects to cultivate more weightless sensations. In lieu of Kubrick’s anxious allegory about humans outsmarted and destroyed by their own technology, George Lucas put escapism on the table - “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away” - and staged a reassuringly Manichaean battle between good and evil, with very fine aliens on both sides. More than any of the film’s other achievements - its precise, poetic evocation of a peaceably tree-lined suburbia its seamless integration of a mechanical character into a live-action ensemble the soaring euphoria of John Williams’s score - what made Spielberg’s alien B.F.F. ![]() Parable so persuasive was its patina of brand-name realism, with a wealth of sharply etched material details that account for its tidal emotional potency. ![]()
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