
‘Starman’ (1984) Film Review
In the bionic cybernetic depiction of the life form collecting “data” – or more accurately with nature, sample points to construct feedback loops with – it is in the angry hostilities that aflame at the slightest of moments.
It is in this effort at connecting, which is not saccharine in its posturing of that cinematic era’s major blockbusters E.T. and Close Encounters of The Third Kind, which makes it a genuine escape thrill. But not thriller.
And that is the working memo with needing to relate with human woman.
It is a cleverly honest depiction of innocence with the natural human body, that has a consistency with a progressive hope of advanced life remaining Naturally agreeable, not cosmically destructive with the power of the mind – sentience itself.
It is here where there is that healthy skepticism of the authentic though limited freedom of the scientist on the hunt for the space-life, as an attempt to understand the brief sampling period window available – with that mystical coordination of “its” departure point at a very large crater in the Earth.
It is in this intuition which wordlessly resonates with that quest for a higher life that is capable of intelligently conversing with man’s relation of his memory, which is also that absent Earth’s lower life forces. And this leads to the simple conclusion that the universe has no need for doppelgänger life forces in perfecting harmony with itself.