Time is limited, so I will briefly describe it.
Let me start with the conclusion: Regardless of the original work, according to the movie, Porter must be schizophrenic and there are no aliens.
The reasons are very good, just list a few:
-If K-stars can fly around with their bodies, they can come and go out of thin air, why didn't they take their bodies in the end?
-If K-stars can possess their bodies at will, why do they need to take Potter's body when going to the north?
-If the K-stars did not take anything with them when they left, why did they take off their glasses and what is the point of taking notes?
-The alien went back just 5 years after Porter’s accident. Could it be such a coincidence to apply for a route?
If you insist on understanding from the perspective of an alien, you will find a lot of flaws. But if you change your thinking and understand it from the perspective of schizophrenia, you will find that this is all foreshadowing, and the editor and director have handled it very carefully, leaving a lot of details, and the logical explanation is very clear.
For example, to give a few examples:
The aliens could feel Potter's call. Every time an alien appeared on the earth, it was when Potter suffered a major change, and he didn't know how he came, just "I was there suddenly".
Adhering to the theory of aliens, can it be said that this is the super-distance effect of love? This is obviously a self-protection response when a schizophrenic suffers a major emotional trauma.
Five years ago, the alien came to Earth and found Potter by the river. He took off his clothes and was about to commit suicide. After that, the police did not find the body, but thought that Potter had committed suicide through the clothes by the river.
Potter was preparing to commit suicide by the river, and then Potter's personality died, and the alien personality awakened and found himself by the river. At this time, Potter was dead for both the Porter personality and the alien personality. So at this time the alien personality was hit hard, and he left the river and was taken in by a nearby shelter. He also started taking notes in the asylum (inferred from the mark on the pencil). At this time, he must have considered a lot and perfected the story of K-PAX.
Note that Potter did not really jump into the river, but just made a suicidal action, representing the complete death of Potter's personality.
Porter had an astronomical telescope since he was young, he could recognize most of the constellations when he was a teenager, and he was sentimental (sentimental marriage), taciturn (sheriff), and had extraordinary vision (can see ultraviolet light).
We can make a hypothesis that Potter is an astronomical wizard hiding in the countryside. Through his own observation and thinking, he discovered the Lyrae Binary Star System (this system can be observed by binoculars!) and derived his own double star. Perturbation equation.
However, this equation is not necessarily correct, and there are errors from the orbital simulation, but it is enough to fool the scientists in a short period of time. After all, the next step of accurate verification will take a long time.
Scientists did not mention the specific evaluation of Porter, but it can be seen that it should be: "surprised but not particularly important". After all, there is no next step, and it is over after asking a few simple questions.
However, this film made me appreciate and affirm the most, and the place that made me believe that Porter must be schizophrenic lies in the series of descriptions of K-PAX society by aliens. If you think about it carefully, you will find that the K-PAX social system almost denies everything about Porter!
When Potter was seventeen years old, he made his little girlfriend pregnant (enthusiastic about sex) and lived a happy life after marriage (emphasis on family). After discovering that his wife and daughter were killed, he killed the murderer himself (tooth for tooth). Let's look at K-PAX's life again: sex life is extremely painful, there is no family concept, and the prisoner is never punished (the specific reason is not elaborated, maybe it is self-awakening, or there is no crime at all). Such a coincidence is obviously deliberate by the author, because the alien personality is Porter's way of self-salvation, so the alien society is also shaped as a complete denial of Porter's past.
Therefore, the "salv (salvation)" written in pencil on the alien hand is already an obvious reminder. Besides, Porter mentioned several times: "Man can heal himself."
At the end there is a very abusive passage. The alien told the doctor: "The universe will continue to replay, and the mistakes you have made will repeat itself again and again, so don’t make any mistakes, correct it as soon as possible, your current life It will be your future." The doctor listened to the advice and reconciled with his son. But don't forget Potter! He has already experienced the greatest tragedy in his life, and this is a fait accompli, so according to his theory, in the future universe, he will experience this tragedy over and over again. When I heard this, I knew that Potter was dead and beyond the reach. This may be why the doctor did not try to awaken Potter's personality, but kept trying to awaken the alien personality.
BTW, add the explanation of Bess disappearing. First of all, Potter has been missing in the hospital for a few days. I think this is a foreshadowing, showing that he knows how to escape from the hospital, or that he knows how to live an unknown life. What he said: "I can only take one person away" should mean that I will tell one of them the method. And Bess should now be another K-PAX star who came to Earth, living in a certain city.
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