In fact, this is a science fiction avant-garde art experimental film, shot in 1976. If you just want to be literal, the name "Taiwan Lai Ke" is more appropriate.
Today, the best part of this movie is still the avant-garde. The real avant-garde is that 31 years later, the pictures inside, the dressing of the characters, the stories and meanings to be told are not outdated at all. In other words, if you don't tell you the filming date of this film, you will never doubt that the film was filmed now.
Of course, the focus of the movie is David Bowie, one of the most important rock musicians in the history of British rock and roll music, known as the rock chameleon. It is also very suitable for him to play a weird alien, sick, weird, out of place, neurotic... These are the common characteristics of this rock musician and the alien (we imagined).
An alien, because he saw the water on the earth, was attracted by the bewilderment, he left the water-scarce planet, abandoned his wife and children and came to the earth. Because he mastered some technologies that humans did not master, he soon established a company on the earth and became the richest mysterious man. He is not used to many things on the earth, but many things make him obsessed with, such as television, such as his lover. But on the other hand, he missed his family on another planet very much.
That's how I was tempted, attracted, and tortured. In the end, he still stayed on the earth to live a rich life, but he had huge regrets in his heart.
To put it bluntly, it just wants to reflect the human nature of modern people who are tortured by external temptations.
David Bowie had a bed scene, which was repeatedly quoted as a classic, that is, when making love, he used a pistol as a metaphor. While getting close, the two people shot each other with the empty bullets of the pistol. This scene is not quoted in movie reviews, but more often in music reviews. It is connected with rock, art, avant-garde, philosophy, life thinking, sexual revolution... these things.
Many people who engage in rock, or critics of rock and roll, like to metaphorically turn pistols into male dicks. They like to shoot guns everywhere. Because this is a manifestation of revolution...
There is a adored rock band called "Guns and Roses". I think the Chinese translation of "Cannons and Roses" or "Cannons and Roses" would be more rock and roll.
In short, this movie is almost older than me, and it is still very outdated from today's perspective. The psychedelic electronic music in it is also my favorite.
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