There are many people who recommended the movie "K Star Stranger" to me, saying that it is a very good sci-fi movie. The movie also stars Kevin Spacey, and with this talented actor alone, it's worth watching.
The plot of the film can spark a lot of discussion. A psychiatric hospital in New York has admitted a new patient, calling himself Brut, from the planet K-PAX 7,000 light-years away. He eloquently and vividly recounted his life on that planet to his patients and to his psychiatrist, Mark Powell, in the hospital. And said he would bring a patient back to K Star with him on July 27.
And when that day came, the mental hospital experienced a brief video surveillance glitch. When everything returned to normal, Mark waited to find Brot passed out under his bed. And Beth, a female patient in a mental hospital, is missing. Since then, Brut has been in a vegetative state, but Dr. Mark has been taking good care of him.
On the face of it, Brut was insane as a result of his unsuccessful suicide attempt following the killing of his wife and daughter five years earlier. He had a friend whose father had bought a pair of telescopes that sparked his knowledge of astronomy. However, the director arranged these plots to be a bit of a maze, and the audience can actually understand that Brut is from the planet K-PAX.
Brut has no human form and can exceed the speed of light. He is parasitic in the human body on earth. When he started talking to Mark, he told Mark that he would not be boarding on Mark. He can feel that his friends need him in the distant K star, and he can come over at any time. He wants to know about humans on earth. After coming into contact with humans, he felt that humans are very interesting creatures and understood human emotions and intricate relationships.
The film actually wants to depict the beautiful emotions in the world through the perspective of an alien intelligent creature: love, family affection, and friendship. Since it is an alien, then this is a science fiction movie. Unfortunately, there are too few sci-fi elements in it.
This well-received film is, at best, a soft sci-fi movie. Like "Star Wars", "This Man From Earth", "Inception" and the like.
The plots and themes of soft science fiction focus on philosophy, psychology, political science, or sociology. Unlike hard sci-fi, which is based on sciences such as physics, chemistry, biology and medicine. The correctness of science and technology and the laws of physics in soft sci-fi doesn't matter.
For example, in K Star Stranger, Brut can travel faster than the speed of light. This directly violates Einstein's general theory of relativity. According to general relativity, the speed of light cannot be surpassed. Because when the speed is closer to the speed of light, the inertia is also greater. To reach the speed of light would require infinite energy, so that's impossible. In the movie, a scientist asked Brut to show the speed of light, and he came to say goodbye, hello. This is simply delusional.
Second, Brut takes Beth back to her own planet. Even if he could theoretically use the wormhole to complete such interstellar travel, whether the flesh-and-blood Beth could survive without the protection of any space equipment is a joke.
Third, people from K-PAX, whose scientific and technological level is much higher than that of the earth, went to the earth to investigate, but they were only limited to a small place like New York, and they could take notes, which was really a bit of a joke.
This is the inevitable plot flaw of soft sci-fi. However, soft sci-fi movies mainly use sci-fi coats to depict the human world. So, sci-fi is just a shell.
Scientists have different opinions on the question of whether there is extraterrestrial intelligence. Optimistic scientists believe that the scale of the universe is so large - there are 100 billion galaxies that can be observed, and each galaxy has an average of hundreds of billions of stars, so the probability of life and even intelligent life in the universe is very high. big. Humans have not discovered them yet because the solar system is too far away from them. The closest star to the solar system, Proxima Centauri, is 4.22 light-years away. Another reason is that we are just beginning to look for them.
Pessimistic scientists such as Fermi believe that alien civilizations do not exist in the universe, or that even if they exist, humans cannot contact them.
In science fiction, contact with alien intelligent creatures is a theme that will never run out. Since human beings have indeed not discovered any alien civilization so far, alien intelligent creatures can only be described by human imagination.
In the process of depicting, basically most of the works imagine alien intelligent creatures as creatures that are similar to human beings and have human emotions and values.
Not surprisingly, humans are absolutely egocentric creatures. In human language, the sun rises and sets as if the sun revolves around the earth. Even though science is so advanced now, people's deep-rooted concept has not changed, and they still feel that human beings are the center of the earth and even the entire universe.
Even if human beings write various plants and animals into fairy tales and fables, they must also endow these creatures with human emotions and values. Only then will these stories come to life and become popular. Otherwise, if you introduce them on a case-by-case basis, it will become popular science, and it will appear dry, and not many people will like it.
"K Star Stranger" certainly does not deviate from the phenomenon described above. In the final analysis, it still only depicts the human world under the guise of aliens. And, it was a very beautiful world, full of warm feelings. This caters to the psychology of the vast majority of people. In addition, the director took some IQ tests in the plot, which made the film more interesting. Make it a pseudo-science fiction movie with a good reputation.
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