E.T. adheres to the point of view of the Henry Thomas character. It’s seen from his perspective...hence before the final sequences, the only adult seen from the waste up is his mother.
All films about historical events have events ‘stolen’ from other films. That’s silly. SL has been praised in virtually every quarter for sequences of astounding precision and impact.
You can make a movie from a 10 year-old’s perspective and still give the characters depth. By age 10 kids comprehend that people have pasts. Which is the big problem with the ET characters, they have none, they spawned forth seconds before the camera rolled, no back story, no discernible motives, they’re just there to be there.
The problem for SL isn’t that some events are stolen it’s that EVERY SINGLE SCENE is stolen. That’s why it’s ridiculously boring, and why you’re weaseling around this painfully obvious fact is even more boring. Face facts or walk away.