Also the broken family is a long standing Spielberg theme going back to The Sugarland Express. Just as Hitchcock's was his 'Unjustly accused man on the Run'.
Yes. Of course. Stevie lives out his own failures and tries to get us all to comiserate. I don't care. I don't find that uplifting, challenging, universal or in any way indicative of fine art. I only see an rich boy with a festering splinter in his butt.