Today to introduce you to an American science fiction movie "K Star Stranger", it does not have any special effects, but it is very simple to tell a story. A beam of light crept down on the bustling Central Park Station in New York, and pedestrians came and went, no one caring what was about to happen. A man in sunglasses stepped out of the beam of light and picked up the woman who had fallen down in pursuit of the thief, but was seen by the patrol at the station behaving strangely and sent him to a Manhattan mental hospital.
This man claimed to be from the K star near Lyra, a thousand light-years from Earth, named Potter, who always smiled and observed everything that was happening on Earth, tall buildings, crowds of people, and even small oranges falling from baskets would attract his attention.
In the hospital, Potter met patients who were insane due to various unfortunate experiences, including masked men who were afraid of death because of their rich imagination and felt that life was full of hidden killing machines, black-haired women who never paid attention to people, who were afraid that smoke would come out as soon as they opened their mouths, and women who fantasized that they were a lady of a person such as Her Majesty the Queen for eleven years.
Potter thinks, "People here think it's neurotic, but I think it's romantic." ”。 No one has come here for no reason, and if they hadn't been hurt, how could they be willing to close themselves forever and try to escape the earth?
Mark was Porter's treating physician, and Mark considered Potter delusional and questioned him several times to gain insight into his condition. Potter tells Mark that he lives on Earth by parasitizing humans, traveling through beams to various planets and recording galactic problems.
Later, during the treatment, the doctor's assistant discovers that Potter can sense ultraviolet rays that the human eye cannot sense, and that the drug is ineffective in Pott's treatment, which makes Mark wonder about Potter's identity.
During the second treatment, Mark closed the curtains of the treatment room, which was dark, and Potter took off his sunglasses for the first time and also removed his defenses. Potter told Mark that on Planet K, he had no family, no conjugal relationship, no social structure, and didn't even need to distinguish between right and wrong.
This can't help but make the doctor think: all the codes of conduct and thought of human beings on the earth are based on the exploration of life by predecessors, repeating what others have said, repeating what others have done, but right and wrong, right and wrong, do we understand, and do we understand?
To help the patients heal their illness, Poker promised the patients on the fourth floor that he would take someone back to K-Star. His promise made the old man look out the window quietly every day to look for the blue bird, and the bird really appeared, and every mental patient looked at the bird outside the window and smiled happily, even the middle-aged woman who had not been out came out, but normal human beings regarded this happiness as a group hysteria, a manifestation of the whole floor falling into a riot.
In order to find out Potter's true identity, the doctor sought the help of an astronomer friend. But astronomers found that Potter knew the most sophisticated knowledge of the universe that humans had. During the subsequent treatment, Mark sensed that Potter had encountered an unfortunate event 5 years ago and was devastated. Mark believes that Potter has a second personality because of this illness. In order to make Potter face the past, Mark discovers a memory of Potter's past through hypnotherapy.
One day five years ago, a homeless man infiltrated Robert's home, humiliated Robert's wife, and killed him along with his daughter, and this scene was just seen by Robert who entered the door, and the angry Robert twisted the neck of the gangster and chose to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river in despair, but the police did not find Robert's body. So Mark thinks Potter is Robert's second personality to emerge after a huge blow.
All this reminds Mark of his own family and his son who is far away, and what is more important than family and affection. After returning to the hospital, Mark tells Potter the truth, hoping that he will face the reality, but Potter is unmoved, and still calmly tells Mark as usual that he is an alien and is about to leave Earth. Potter also told Mark that since he had found Robert, please take good care of him. When the sun rose the next day, Potter's room network suddenly malfunctioned, and a beam of light shone in. When the doctor rushed in, he found an unconscious Robert under the bed, and one of the patients disappeared out of thin air, leaving only a note that read "Homeless".
At the end of the story, it may not matter whether Potter is really an alien or not, what matters is that Potter looks at us from an alien perspective and tells us some truths about the universe, about cherishing, about love.