A shameless clone of E.T., or a nuanced film layered with meaning?
Here, then, are ten alternate interpretations ofMac And Me.
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The secrets revealed when Eric holds a newspaper up to the camera later in the film.
It was originally meant to be an anti-drugs movie
Remember all those references to Coke mentioned earlier?
This would certainly explain the aliens perpetually whacked-out appearance, and their weird absence of clothes.
Now theres a special edition Blu-ray wed like to see.
Why dont you stop by for a Big Mac?
asks one ofMac And Mes child actors.
I feel like a Big Mac says another, apropos of nothing.
Theres also a horrible, seemingly endless song-and-dance scene set in a Californian branch of McDonalds.
Then again, isMac And Meone of the most cunning examples of reverse psychology in the history of cinema?
There are subtle clues, too, in the frightful McDonalds dance scene mentioned earlier.
Take a closer look at the extras in the background: no ones eating.
Whats director Stewart Raffill trying to say here?
Is it the sign of a rebellious director extending an insolent finger to his corporate paymasters?
Why else would you have a lengthy scene in which wild horses chase a van?
Or a gratuitous shot of an alien holding a melon?
Note, too, the cameo appearance from Chuck Norris in the scene captured above.
The surrealists had nothing onMac And Me.
The world is yours is theScarface-style message present inMac And Me.Would you like fries with that?
Its also full of sex, full-frontal nudity and disturbing images, and therefore unsuitable for a family audience.
Certain shots inMac And Meeven appear to be lifted straight fromThe Man Who Fell To Earth.
Nic Roeg, call your lawyers.
This theorys really stretching the bounds of credulity, I suspect, but bear with me.
Think back over all the other depictions of alien races in sci-fi movies, television and literature.
Can you think of a single one as hideously dim as the ones inMac And Me?
Even the most basic imagined societies in sci-fi history at least had some semblence of culture or civilisation.
Compared to the aliens inMac And Me, the Ewoks are the height of cultural sophistication.
Look again at Macs home planet its nothing more than a dustbowl.
Of all the interpretations related so far, this ones by far the most spurious.
But a rip-off ofE.T.
?All similarities are purely coincidental.
Besides, if Steven Spielberg really was a visionary creator of classic family movies, how come E.T.
never featured scenes such as this?
