K-PAX - 2001

I like this film very much. Well, maybe sometimes Spacey's monologues are a bit too long, there wasn't need for that. That was the only annoying film, phrases too long, about us people of the Earth... had those lines been simpler, meaning shorter, it would have been better. Much better.
First, the main character is played by Kevin Spacey, one of my favourite actors. We see him appearing inside a station, 'in a flash of light'. Well, a moment before he wasn't there, then he was :-) He does nothing wrong, he helps a woman, and every witness is ready to tell the police that he didn't do anything wrong, that he just helped, but since he doesn't seem coherent, they take him to a mental institution. Here doctor Mark Powell (Jeff Bridges) tries to help him. He says his name is prot, and he's from a 'planet far far away', although he doesn't uses these exact words, called K-PAX. He says life on his planet is very different, starting from the light, not so strong as ours, which is why he alwasy wears sunglasses, and seems to find everything here on Earth fascinating, like a simple banana, that he eats without taking off the skin. He says he can teleport using light, and he's so interesting Mark gets caught by his case, he can't let it go even when he's at home. With the help of a friend, Mark gives him a test, and later introduces him to some astrophysicists, and his answers are all correct, he's not talking gibberish like Mark was expecting. Prot puzzles every expert. Mark is more and more interested in him, but also worried, when prot starts telling some of the other patients that if they do what he says they'll recover completely. However, it seems that some of them are actually getting better after all. From time to time prot disappears, then comes back, and he simply says he had to go exploring, for the report he'll bring back home, while Mark can't understand how could he escape ( and come back) from the hospital. prot has also set a very precise date, saying he'll be leaving to go back home, and also says that he'll take one person with him. Every patient wants to go with him, but Mark is convinced that date must mean something. He does a research, and finds out that on that date, a very strong man named Robert Porter came back home to find his wife had been raped and killed, and also his young daughter had been killed, and the murderer is still in the house. Completely out of his senses with the terrible pain, Robert grabbed the murderer and broke his neck, then went into the river, and disappeared, and was then believed dead. I liked what that sheriff said that if the man doctor Powell had was really Robert Porter, he preferred not to know. Sure, because you can feel for him, and wouldn't want to put him in jail for murder.
On their last day, before prot leaves, Mark tries again, his last shot. He shows prot a picture of Robert Porter, but nothing seems to happen. However, before saying goodbye, prot tells Mark 'now that you've found Robert Porter, take good care of him'. Which might make you think...
At the moment of departure, the security cameras go off for a moment, and when Mark enters his room, he finds Robert on the floor, without glasses, and completely cathatonic. Also, one of the patients is missing, and despite the searches won't be found. A poor girl, Bess, who had lost her family in a fire, and that never spoke, and nontheless in her mind she was like screaming, only nobody could hear her.
Mark tells all this to Robert, convinced that he can hear him, although still being cathatonic.
Now, what's the public opinion? That it was just a mental problem, and now is onto another stage? Well, he's certainly not cured, is he? Well, I think that's a bit too simple.
 I think there really was a Prot, that entered Robert's body when Robert was in such a state he could not function anymore, and was actually about to kill himself drowning in the river, but we could clearly see the light on the river, right where he was. So I think prot came to him through that light, and stayed with him for five years, until he thought it was time to let him back, to find different help, and actually found a good help for him, because Mark will not abandon him.
After leaving Robert, prot took Bess away with him, what other explanation there might be for her disappearance??? :)
Jeff Bridges is also very good, his Mark is a very good character, I loved him, and Bridges was really good. I know I said it already, so what? He was!