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
Reader's Rating: 8.69
Reader's Votes: 159
Added: 10-Jun-2002
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