When Dr. Mark Powell started his
usual day at the public mental hospital where he works, he must have had
different expectation of patients. But when a patient called Prot is allocated
to him for diagnosis with an introduction ‘Like a pussy cat’, he finds himself quite
involved more than usual. Prot claims that he comes from a planet called K-Pax
and he is on a mission. While the good doctor tries to unfold the true identity
of this mysterious ‘alien’ he finds himself amusingly bonding with him. As Prot
is very through and informative on his side of the story Dr. Mark finds it
challenging to make an influence on Prot with usual medical practices.
Furthermore Prot starts to convince other patients in the hospital that he is a
K-Paxian and the other patients begin to create a fan group around him. And on top of all that there is a certain
curiosity within the intelligent members of some areas if Prot is actually who
he says him to be as he poses some great knowledge which is still unknown to
many.
K-Pax
is a movie which has very little ups and downs in the mood. It almost runs in a
mid phase throughout. There is neither loud music nor moments of thrill unless
there is one which last only few seconds rarely. And the whole movie is like a big conversation
that happens between two people. And these two characters dominate the whole
movie and without knowing we become witnesses to a medical investigation.
Jeff
Brdiges (Dr. Powell) and Kevin Spacey (Prot) makes a wonderful pair and simply
strong in their character representation. They have totally different two ends
to their roles and how they try to connect it together is simply fascinating. I
must say that along with this lovely performance the plot works very uniquely
without making the viewer bored.
Having
a dramatic and scientific background to it K-Pax always keeps a step ahead of
the mind of the viewer. The story is completely unpredictable and much untold.
Some say ‘One Flew over the Kukus Nest’ back in the day was similar but then
again I personally don’t know.
What
I like about K-Pax is that it’s a story which goes beyond the usual and shows how people can go practically
insane over something and how someone can go literally insane in order to make
them better.
Genre:
Drama, Mystery, Sci Fi
Director:
Iain Softley
Writers:
Gene Brewer (novel), Charles Leavitt
(screenplay)
Stars:
Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges and Mary McCormack
This is not a very good movie from my angle. Yes it's a science fiction but in between there are lots of uncertainties.
ReplyDeleteJust draw your attention to below incident.
Once prote going to north (Greenland/etc.) for three days & suddenly in those three days he was missing. that mean he has done a light traveling. But end of the story he seems to be went to K-Pax, but his body was on earth.
What's the point here? Is it a real science fiction or is it a real mental disorder?