This film is so quintessential Bowie, it's a classic for a reason.
David Bowie was a strange phenomenon. He emerged onto the mainstream at the tail end of the 1960s with his first major hit, "Space Oddity," an atmospheric ballad about the doomed mission of an astronaut longing for home. It capitalized on the current fascination with space exploration, established Bowie as a keen musical storyteller, and arguably introduced a theme that his work would carry on for many years.
What Is 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' About? The Man Who Fell to Earth is not a movie for the average sci-fi goer. If you’re hoping for space travel and cool alien creatures, you will not find enough of them in this picture for your liking. The movie is a very people-based drama with lashings of that trademark Roeg surrealism, a strange soundtrack, and a bunch of bemusing sex scenes.
If there is one thing that the movie is memorable for, it is the money shot scene where Newton decides to show his true form to Mary Lou. He strips off the eyes, fingernails, and genitals that make up his human costume and emerges from the bathroom bald, amorphous, with yellow cat-like eyes, and Mary Lou collapses into utter hysterics, even wetting herself in fear.
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