A person who is unremarkable in the crowd suddenly tells you that he is actually an alien, traveling from another distant planet;
Something surprising happens when you subconsciously classify this person as a member of psychosis;
He can explain everything in the head of the Tao, and you can't find any evidence that he is an alien or a mentally ill person!
So much so that you suspect that he is really an alien traveler.
Released in 2001, the sci-fi suspense film "K Star Stranger" tells such a story.
"K Star Stranger"
Length: 120 minutes
Production area: United States
Director: Ian Softtreet
Year: 2001
One clear and bright afternoon, New York's Central Park Station welcomed an uninvited guest, who seemed to suddenly appear, a middle-aged uncle with strange behavior and suspicious behavior.
The man quickly attracted the attention of the station police, and under the police interrogation, the man's answer was laughable.
The man said, I come from a planet called K-PAX. The police, who determined he was mentally ill, immediately sent him to a mental hospital.
Doctors at the psychiatric hospital suspected him of severe hallucinations and injected him with tranquilizers for three weeks in a row, but to no avail.
In desperation, a psychiatrist named Mark took over the patient.
In the course of talking to him, the man called himself Potter, and Potter talked to Mark with clear logic and quick reaction, without leaking. More importantly, Porter seamlessly explained how he came to Earth, the people of K-PAX, the habits of life, and the cultural structure.
Puzzled by the power of persuasion, Mark then approached an expert friend who studied astronomy and asked if there was a planet K-PAX described by Porter.
The answer shook Mark so much that no one except his astronomy-studying friends and one of his colleagues knew the coordinates of K-PAX.
Potter not only knew the coordinates of K-PAX, but also showed these astronomers how the K-PAX planet works, which made Mark and these astronomers even more stunned.
Back at the mental hospital, Mark was helpless against Potter.
At this time, Potter was mingling with the patients in the mental hospital.
Porter told the patients that they were from K-PAX, and that the patients had nothing to believe;
Potter tells the patients the fairy tale of the "blue robin", and one day, a blue robin falls outside the window of the mental hospital, and this group of mental patients who are regarded as alien by the doctors completely regard Potter as their best friend.
Potter seemed to be able to do what a psychiatric doctor couldn't do—to go into the hearts of these psychopaths and have the ability to empathize with them.
Even Dr. Mark learned a lot of old things in his contact with Potter, mark was infected by Potter, and loved his family and valued his relatives even more.
But Mark became more curious about Potter, so Mark used hypnosis to explore Potter's inner secret world.
Under several hypnosis attempts, Mark got a lot of information about the man. Under his layers of investigation, he began to associate Potter with a "farm murder" a few years earlier.
It turned out that in a small town called Goffer, there had been a tragedy: Rob Potter's wife and daughter had been brutally killed, and Potter, who had gone out, had arrived late, but still desperately wrestled with the murderer and sent the murderer to hell, but the death of his wife and daughter was deeply affected by him, so he went to the river to prepare for suicide, and walked step by step into the river, carrying despair and pain.
Linked to Mark's previous conversation with Potter during potter's hypnosis, he said that parasitizing humans is an ability of people on their planet, and That Rob Potter is his own friend (they became friends as children), so when his friend experienced danger, the alien on another planet heard his cry for help, but it was too late, Rob Potter, although he did not succeed in suicide, had become a vegetative person, and the alien deservedly parasitized on Rob Potter and became Potter.
Of course, this is Mark's conjecture, and there is obviously another possibility for us viewers, this person did not die at all, nor did he become a vegetative person, it was purely a prank of a mentally ill person.
So what the hell is he an alien? Or a mentally ill person? We don't know.
Returning to the story of the film itself, at the same time, Potter tells Mark and the people at the psychiatric hospital that he will return to K-PAX in six days and will take a patient with him, and people cheer and look forward to going to another planet with Potter.
Six days later, the psychiatric hospital was missing one person, and potter collapsed into a vegetative state, and Potter took a patient named Beth.
Bess
Beth's disappearance caused Mark to ponder why the alien had taken Beth, the woman who didn't talk much. Of course, this is also one of the mysteries that the film gives to the audience.
Potter who becomes a vegetative person
The narrative of "K Star Stranger" is more old-fashioned, there is no shocking special effects, it is completely a low-budget film, and from the perspective of film technique, there is no innovation.
But what is commendable is the logic of this film, although there are some loopholes, but the overall view is also quite strict.
And the image shaping and dialogue plot of Potter and Mark in this film are definitely highlights,
As a member of the psychiatric patients, Potter was not treated coldly by Mark, and Mark did not know how to give injections and medicine to patients like other doctors, but instead took the initiative to understand Potter and explore his inner world.
There are thousands of ways to get along with each other, even if he is a mental patient, are we willing to talk to him with the heart? Even if he's a passerby on the side of the road who suddenly says "I'm from another planet."