K-Pax
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K-PAX is a film that may not do well at the box office but it won't be because of the lack of quality. In short, this film is brilliant throughout. From the beginning, the viewer is faced with the question of whether or not Prot is an alien or simply mentally ill. Prot, played perfectly by Kevin Spacey, is as wonderful a character to come around in a movie in a long, long time. While assisting a robbery victim at Grand Central Station in New York, Prot is apprehended by the police department and taken to the local Mental Hospital. In what may resemble a play on the fine film, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Prot begins to assist his fellow patients as well as many of the hospital's staff begin a journey of discovering what is really important in their individual lives. Prot professes to come from the planet K-PAX; the viewer questions the legitimacy of this, and instantly finds a common ground on which to identify with the other characters in the film. I know that there are components of K-PAX that will remind many viewers of new age philosophy, aliens and all. If this is the primary focus of the viewer, I would challenge that the overwhelming primary emphasis has been overlooked.[1]
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