The Dark Side of Spielberg, based on real-life experiences from ``The Fabelmans''

broken family

Furthermore, in this movie, he openly talks about his parents' divorce. Like Sammy's mother, played by Michelle Williams, Spielberg's mother, Leah Adler, fell in love with a close family friend, Bernie Adler, and divorced her husband, Arnold. It cast a dark shadow on Spielberg's mind as a teenager. Moreover, he found out about the affair through the footage he had taken with his own 8mm film camera.

broken family. That motif has cropped up repeatedly in Spielberg's films. Roy Neary in `` Close Encounters of the Third Kind '' abandons his family and flies off into space, and young Elliot in `` ET '' (1982) struggles to cope with the absence of his father. Indiana Jones was estranged from his father until they reconciled in `` Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade '' (1989), and John Anderton in `` Minority Report '' (2002) became addicted to drugs due to the trauma of losing his son. In `` The Terminal '' (2004), the setting is that not only the family but the country itself has collapsed.

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Perhaps the film that most vividly evokes Spielberg's memories is ` `Catch Me If You Can '' (2002). The story depicts how the family falls apart in the blink of an eye when it is discovered that the mother is having an affair with an acquaintance of the father. The main character, Frank, believes that if he has money, he can live happily with his parents again, so he turns to fraud.

Spielberg has quietly slipped bits of his own story into his work. However, he also thought that someday it would be necessary to make a film out of his own memories, rather than metaphorical expressions. The idea for ``The Fabelmans'' had been in Spielberg's mind for over 20 years.

Spielberg's sister, Anne Spielberg, who is best known as the screenwriter for the Tom Hanks-starring movie " Big " (1988), also wrote a screenplay titled "I'll Be Home." However, Spielberg was extremely afraid of hurting his parents by telling the story of his divorce. He was hesitant to talk about himself and continued to hesitate.

For many years, the project of ``my brother directing a script written by my sister'' remained in limbo.

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