ABSTRACT
The space alien dramatically re-entered earth's atmosphere in 1976 with the release of Nicholas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth. Importantly, Thomas Jerome Newton appears entirely human. He is neither a repulsive blob nor a mechanized robot nor a blank-faced automaton nor a horribly deformed creature. He is an entirely recognizable human being. The earth person's reaction toward the alien seems ambiguous and confused. The spaceman, seeming to burst out of nowhere into the everyday world, may be regarded as a hierophany, a manifestation of the sacred. Like all sacred beings, each alien has extraordinary power. Newton is an extremely gifted electronics engineer whose nine basic patents can, as his business partner Farnsworth exclaims, "take on RCA, Eastman Kodak, and Dupont, for starters". In the Brother from Another Planet, the Brother demonstrates his power in several ways. He can fix things. When he first arrives at Ellis Island, he heals his own mangled leg with his glowing hand.
