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KPAX


When a mysterious so-called alien shrouded in sunglasses lands in Manhattan, a psychiatrist's theory begins to unravel while trying to understand this new being.

In KPAX, it is unclear whether an individual's subconscious is role playing or whether the universal consciousness is working something out. The psychological plight is both exhilarating and thought provoking. Prot (Kevin Spacey) is Buddha meets Dennis Miller (morally and intellectually transcended, but with an obvious lack of patience for the ignorant)! Dr. Mark Powell (Jeff Bridges) is your typical modern man who refuses to change and refuses to understand that his narrow beliefs can be challenged ? if not altogether disproved.

Basically, the film was thoroughly confusing which, for a transcendentalist, is a good thing ? confusion denotes thought. The film also pokes fun at conventional psychiatry and the inclined inability to treat patients properly with any level of respect or humility. The KPAX message is the notion that what we have grown so accustomed to just might not be the only possibility. The film also points out that humans ignore, and nurture their ignorance, about anything outside of our fabricated reality and existence. Instead, we create entire universes in our minds and desperately try to prevent change or transcendence. KPAX is a film worth watching, if for nothing else, to tap into that intellectually-humanitarian message and try to incorporate a bit of its 'extraterrestrialness' into our own lives.

Written by: Rachael K LeValley

Reviewers Rating: 7
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Added: 10-Jun-2002

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