" Ray agreed, since "Shoeless" Joe Jackson died in 1951, and was infamous for having been suspended from ""America""s past-time"" during the 1919 World Series scandal.The plot of the film is about the strident efforts of a neurotic child to be liberated from repressive, matriarchal domination.The alien is having trouble in Earth""s modern-day world - he has inspected other objects in the room - a tennis racket and an easy-open umbrella." One little girl asked: "Lawgiver, who knows about the future?" He replied: "Perhaps only the dead." The last ambiguous image was a tracking zoom shot to a nearby statue of Caesar, and a closeup of his left eye shedding a tear.