This simple, poignant ""womens-type"" film was positioned between his classic war filmIn Which We Serve (1942)and his later epic films, includingThe Bridge on the River Kwai (1957),Lawrence of Arabia (1962), andDoctor Zhivago (1965).Edmund was intrigued by the promise of attaining superiority over his brother.Edmund met up with Lucy (after she had reunited with Mr.Tumnus), realizing that he may have told the Queen important information (that later betrayed Mr.Tumnus) in exchange for candy.The two returned to tell the others about the wardrobe (Lucy: "It""s all in the wardrobe like I told you"), but Edmund stubbornly refused to admit his presence there, presumably to cover up his new acquaintanceship with the Queen: "I was just playing along.After gesturing for the alien to come out of the closet, it emerges wearing his robe.Elliott introduces himself:Do you talk, you know, talk? Me human.Boy.Elliott.Ell-i-ott.Elliott.In a profoundly simple scene, Elliott uses objects in his bedroom to introduce his ""alien"" world and culture to the creature, a world of materialism and violence.However, she cried and was upset that it wasn""t the one she had seen advertised on television: ("It""s the wrong one.The time period of the provocative, sophisticated film is set in the early 50s during the height of right-wing McCarthyism - a time of tense political paranoia with the overriding, reactionary fear that Communists (Russian and Chinese) were scheming to take over the US via advanced brainwashing techniques and programmed terrorist raining.