The first time I really thought he was schizophrenic, when I saw Robert's eyes on the rooftop, he was crying like hell.
But only the disappearance of bess at the end left me puzzled.
Until this time I found out that this is actually a science fiction movie.
It's just that I hadn't figured out before, how the aliens could come and go freely, and even actually took the bess in the end. And what kind of relationship does it have with Robert?
I figured it out.
When I rewatched this film, I remembered "Village Teacher": the human beings chosen by aliens for testing are not scientists, not from big cities, but from desolate mountainous areas, and they are a group of children who are about to drop out of school.
In the movie, an extraterrestrial creature that can travel at the speed of light chooses a child of a cattle slaughterhouse: a child with extraordinary intelligence, who is ultimately bound by life, and works as a cattle slaughterhouse worker for the family, although he hates it from the bottom of his heart. Work.
Aliens who symbolize advanced civilization and people in desolate corners of human civilization, this strong dislocation and contrast makes people feel incongruous, even absurd, but impressive.
We always believe only what we can understand.
If you ask me, is there any other life in that boundless darkness, in the gradually cooling universe that starlight cannot warm? - I'm pretty sure it must exist.
Humans, of course, are not alone.
This is not delusion, but probability.
There are people in the comments arguing for the truth.
Some people say "he can't be an alien."
I can totally get the interpretation of split personality, but - I think, this is like a mental game. Or this interpretation adds to the tragedy and drama of the story, making it seem more rational, more realistic, or more profound. Because that is a complete human tragedy.
(But in fact, to explain the 5-year disappearance, the mysterious astronomical knowledge that surprised the doctor, and his mysterious disappearance from the hospital, it seems that the male protagonist is a superman.)
There are many comments by trying to erase this movie aliens And the sci-fi factor, revealing the darkness and humanity behind this story. Later, after reading the original novel, I found that the so-called 'reality under the guise of science fiction' is exactly the same as the doctor's final report in the original novel.
It turns out that these ideas are not new interpretations. From the beginning, this is the final understanding of the sane human beings in the original novel about the guests of K-PAX.
When the doctor described the story to society, he did not tell a science fiction story.
But I know, both in the book and in this movie, it's the blue bird, it's the alien friend of the kid who became a slaughterhouse worker, and it's aline from K-PAX.
They are civilizations far superior to humans.
It even exists as a spiritual body (similar to the higher civilization in "Poem Cloud"), it can "possess" (or "parasitic") on the lower creatures on the earth, and it can communicate with animals (just like with humans). communication), and even, it can possess other life forms just like possessing human beings.
And it doesn't know by what chance - maybe just pure curiosity about lower civilizations - and became friends with a child of the earth. It taught that child about the starry sky, about K-PAX, and made that child's heart no longer ordinary.
(How to do it? It is also possessed.)
But that child was bound by the land where he grew up, by the desolate hometown, and by the life of human beings. Robert has a girlfriend and unexpectedly has a child. In order to support his family, he had to stay, buried his desire for the stars, and became a slaughterhouse worker.
We can even guess that at that time it had promised to take Robert to K-PAX, but gave up because of these accidents.
As someone put it, "The gravity of reality keeps us on the ground" - ha.
Then unfortunately happened.
It sensed and returned to Robert again.
When Robert decides to kill himself and drowns in the river, it tries to protect him.
It saved Robert's life, but Robert's spirit was broken.
People on K-PAX believe that everything has the ability to heal itself.
It also believes so.
It is unwilling to give up this friend.
It knew that as long as it left, Robert would die.
So it lingered on Earth, waiting for his friend's "self-healing", to find a way to heal him. But at that time, it did not understand the family, did not understand the fetters of human beings, did not understand that 'love' can kill a human being.
It might sense Robert's pain, but it doesn't understand why.
And another reason for it to stay on Earth, the "report" it has been referring to, may be that it is investigating the things that made Robert collapse - human family, miss, love.
(I read the novel later, which contains its report)
5 years later, it borrowed the body of a 'dead' friend to travel around the earth to investigate human beings. Getting closer.
It finally brought Robert back into the sight of society, choosing the right person to entrust to his friends.
Maybe it has finally found it, maybe it can save other heart diseases, but it can't save Robert's broken soul because of love.
Only this is incurable.
It has learned how important the family is to human beings.
In the end, it entrusted Robert to a doctor and took Bess, who was homeless, by himself.
Want me to say, this movie is a story of friendship between aliens and earthlings.
It is also a story of human beings who come into contact with things they do not know.
I don't think that from a sci-fi point of view, the ending is a happy one.
In fact, even a life like it from an advanced civilization that can travel faster than light cannot save its friends. Although it has tried and tried its best, in the end, it can only let go of Robert, who does not want to be cured.
PS
The original novel repeatedly mentioned the harm of human religion to people (including Robert's family), which was hidden in the movie.
In the description of the novel, in the end, Prot has almost become a new belief for mentally ill people. Everyone is eager to go to K-PAX, and the doctor describes it as "paradise". And after Prot left, those who knew it still believed that it would return, and also believed in the beautiful and peaceful world of Lyra that it described.
Very interesting replacement, in fact, this mysterious and well-mannered Prot is just like... let's not say it, maybe some people will feel the same.
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