K-Pax

[martin]

I can recommend "K-Pax". Directed by Iain Softley and with Kevin Spacey as protagonist. It's a little bit old (2001).
They play with the themes of Hypnosis, Dissosiation, Incarnated ET beings, Traveling through light waves and how science is so far of understanding this type of phenomena. This movie is quite emotional too and really touched me.

Here is the plot as they describe it at imbd.com:
"Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations."

 

[Fifth Way]

Totally agree! A must see.

 

[Keit]

Well, I don't want to give any spoilers or something, but I think that this film really makes you think.
It's really gives you a sense of interdimensionality. And the music... This is a real treat :)

 

[Bo]

Well, I don't want to give any spoilers or something, but I think that this film really makes you think.
It's really gives you a sense of interdimensionality. And the music... This is a real treat :)

this film is so awesome, one of my favourites, and yes the music so inspiring,


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the quotes that really made me think about the universe, and my favorites:

Prot: I wanna tell you something Mark, something you do not yet know, that we K-PAXians have been around long enough to have discovered. The universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don't you know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again, & again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.

Prot: Let me tell you something, Mark. You humans, most of you, subscribe to this policy of an eye for an eye, a life for a life, which is known throughout the universe for its... stupidity.

Prot: Even your Buddha and your Christ had quite a different vision. But nobody's paid much attention to them, not even your Buddhists and your Christians.

Prot: Why is a soap bubble round? Because it is the most energy efficient configuration. Similarly, on your planet I look like you; on K-Pax I look like a K-PAXian.

Prot: I had never been to a class BA-3 planet before.
Dr. Mark Powell: Class BA-3?
Prot: Early stage of evolution-future uncertain.

and also some part about they not missing eachother on k-pax and no families, no wants, no needs.
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this really made me think, so beautiful.

 

[Z...]

I ve read the book, never seen the movie

The book was quite cool, probably the last piece of fiction I read in last few years

 

[dant]

I have the DVD and highly recommend it! Very thoughtful throughout and
and is very interesting especially the ending. The music is very
good indeed!


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Interesting to note that the drama is very personal between the Dr. and the
patients in the ward so nothing really gets out to the public, or so it seems.
Prot enters the scene and left as if to leave a very tiny footprint.

Very interesting, indeed.

 

[Zadius Sky]

Yesterday, I finally got to see K-Pax (which was in my parents' collection since it came out on DVD). And, it was very good movie. I didn't expect anything when watching it (never saw a preview either), and it ended up to be very interesting. I'd really recommended it. If you want to think, this is a movie for you. :)



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The quotes provided by Adam stands out in my mind and actually made sense.

 

[Lucius]

This move is great ;) the best scen is when they take k-pax's to the opserwatory/planetarium and check him....

The other movies that you should wath are Johan Q , Green Mile , and the Das Experiment ( for the psyhopats at power.... )

 

[dant]

I saw this movie AGAIN! :)
I liked the Einstein / Light travel dialog.


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The doctor questioning him wants to know how he got here and he said he harnessed
his energy onto a beam of light or something to this effect. He then said that they would
travel and many times the speed of light and when told that Einstein said that nothing can
exceed to the speed of light and Prot told the doctor he was wrong.

Prot commented that what Einstein really said is that nothing could exceed up to the speed
of light because its mass would become infinite but that Einstein said nothing about entities
already traveling at or above the speed of light.

I am thinking in the simple situation when we travel in a jet plane, we at first are strapped
into our chairs with seat belts and all, as we take off the tarmac and go "full-throttle", we
are temporarily enduring the displeasure of the G's against our bodies, as we are traveling
into the atmosphere and away from the Earth, until we reach the cruising speed (acceleration
=~ 0, velocity =~ 550MPH) only then can we unbuckle and take a walk in the aisle or go to the
bathroom. But of course if the plane deviates from a straight line path, acceleration is no longer
zero. But I am thinking out loud: "Acceleration =0 if velocity=constant and is traveling in a straight
line?" - but is this statement true even in a vacuum or more specifically: "If there are NO gravitational
forces acting on the object (plane/spaceship/...) due to the presence of large bodies such as planets,
suns, asteroids, and such as in space travel?

So, is it possible to maintain acceleration and velocity to safe limits so that stresses acting on mass is
maintained in slow steps as we approach the speed of light? Or, is it true that regardless how slowly we maintain
the stress of acceleration the mass will lose "cohesion" due to it's internal chemical bonding such as electrons,
protons, and/or neutrons will fly apart? As for traveling in the speed of light, shouldn't the "flight path" be
made so that there are no effects of gravitation forces from the galaxies, stars, planets, asteroids, ... so as
to keep acceleration to it's maintainable minimum?

Interestingly, I read in the following supplied link that acceleration has to somewhere below 4G's
as 4-6G for a short period of time can cause visual impairment or a total black out.
(_http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1998/PhillipAndriyevsky.shtml)

Of course, one comes away thinking that Prot himself is not human as he says, ie something of a
possessing "spirit", which perhaps massless except for Robert himself so we come away thinking
that light travel is entirely possible because there is no mass to deal with and Prot is, perhaps something
of (souled?) light being himself? Interesting!!

Sorry for my incessant babbling - this movie got me into thinking of many possibilities...
OSIT.

 

[aurora]

The acting of Kevin Spacey is superb. I watched it twice and can watch it again.

 

[Medulin]

I just saw this movie last week.
It's amazing.
It even made me cry.
Highly recommended!

 

[Divide by Zero]

In light of thinking as Prot as from an STO world or closer to STO than ours:


Q: (L) So, you're saying that people get born in 4D?

A: Yes. When did we say otherwise?

Q: (L) Well, you didn't. I was just not sure.

(Chu) Well, with changes in physicality, you'd think people could avoid the normal human birth, with the pain...

A: It's just a bit more intense in some ways.

In K-pax they speak of the reproductive process as unpleasant, making the choice to have children much more thought out.
In our 3d STS world, it is pleasurable, to induce mechanical reproduction. Of course it is not easy to raise a child, but the first step is sort of a forced choice it seems in this world.

Pretty interesting writers, whoever they were!

 

[Rich]

Pretty interesting writers, whoever they were!

Indeed. I enjoyed it immensely. It was more meaningful for me to see the Kpax story as a reaction to PTSD and the alien thought process being a coping mechanism for childhood trauma. They did leave it open though...

 

[Divide by Zero]

I don't think it was a reaction to PTSD.

Prot knew and was able to explain some stuff that even the astronomers were struggling to figure out.

He also disappeared from the mental institution for a few days, without anyone knowing how he did it or seeing him leave.

 

[Ask-Seek-Knock]

Just found this movie on Netflix. My husband and I REALLY enjoyed it. Kevin Spacey is awesome in everything, IMO.

Spoiler Alert

We were pulling for him to truly be from K-Pax and so glad that the script didn't take another turn. I loved how he helped everyone at the hospital especially the guy (Howie) with OCD, getting him to focus his attention on those three tasks.

Agree with the others in that I highly recommend this movie. Enjoy!