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The story of this film is insanely simple. It could be related in a single sentence: An alien comes to earth in order to save his family, gets distracted by booze and television and fails at his mission. In the hands of the great Nicolas Roeg, what could have been enough for an above-average episode of The Twilight Zone, instead becomes a decades spanning epic. By stretching the run time to over two hours, we get to become David Bowie's starman. We get to live through a narrative that gradually becomes more muddied, complex and distracting. With a less talented filmmaker, this could have become insufferable. But thanks to all the interesting ideas and images Roeg and his collaborators were able to dream up, we too gradually begin to forget where we began and just go with the dreamy flow. Tommy's loss is our gain.
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