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An extremely bizarre viewing experience that raises a number of questions, for which only disturbing answers are offered. Who came up with the idea and how, or rather what compelled those involved to actually make a porn movie with an obvious copy of the beloved children’s hero E.T.? Why does the film take place in the 19th century (which is depicted by the interior and exterior of a villa from the ’90s)? Who, on the basis of a concept that is perversely brilliant and repulsively perverse, created the costume for the central character, which is both sophisticated, as it allows the actress to participate in all manner of sexual practices, and extremely disgusting (E.T.’s head with large, unmoving eyes and a body that looks like a mouldered diving suit that has been rotting in a landfill for a couple of years)? What’s even worse, however, are the inevitable meta questions about the kind of light that this de facto prequel casts on Spielberg’s original E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Was the filmmaker’s goal to merely make a nonsense porn flick or to commit an act of porn sabotage or even a terrorist attack on the greatest icon in the genre of family movies? _____ The film was released in Spain with completely made-up subtitles (which were the basis of the English subtitles for the pirated release) that do not match the German original at all. There are thus actually two versions of the film, and it’s difficult to say which one is more bizarre. In the German version, the female variation on E.T. is ordered by her father to travel from the planet Uterus to Earth with the task of learning about sex from people so that she can return and use the knowledge that she has acquired to save her own species, whose members are dying out because they have learned to deny physical pleasure and the joy of life through sex. In the course of her subsequent observation of Earthlings engaging in sexual activities, in which she also takes part, E.T. makes absurd, vulgar comments and spouts superficial observations such as speculation about reproducing through the mouth while watching oral sex. The Earthlings, or more specifically the guy in the role of a nobleman, who was the only one in the whole film with written dialogue, speak completely nonsensical bullshit such as “I am disgusted yet honoured that this being from another planet has come to us to learn about human sexual habits.” In the Spanish/English version, the extra-terrestrial or, more precisely, unit Z-9 sets out for Earth only after being warned that humans are evil and have strange customs, which she nevertheless has to try to understand. Accordingly, the following comments on the sex being performed are also completely unimaginative nonsense about strange customs. Similarly, the things that the nobleman says are utterly insipid and obscure what the relationships between the characters are (in the German version, the girl that the alien engages with first is his the nobleman’s daughter).
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