The other patients believe that prot has taken her to K-PAX. In addition, one of the patients is missing: Bess, a woman who had remained mute since her home was destroyed in a fire and who had been among the patients that asked to go to K-PAX with prot. As Robert is being wheeled out of the room, the other patients do not recognize him as prot and say that prot has gone. Powell finds Porter lying on the floor in his room, catatonic, prot having apparently left Porter's body for the light travel back to K-PAX. On July 27 as the hospital staff watch, the camera in prot's room cuts to static at the precise time prot said he would leave Earth. Powell tries to confront prot with this knowledge, showing him a photo of Robert Porter in a high school yearbook and stating that it is in fact prot himself but prot's reaction is one of bemusement, and he cryptically tells Powell that he hopes he will take good care of Robert now that he has found him. Using information gained from these sessions, Powell figures out that prot may simply be an alter ego of Robert Porter, a man from New Mexico who worked as a 'knocker' (animal slaughterer) in a local abbatoir, who attempted suicide in 1996 after his wife and child were murdered. Powell decides to subject prot to regression hypnosis, which works well. However, Powell believes this to be a significant date in prot's life, a day on which he suffered a severe psychological trauma. Upon learning that many of his patients expect to leave Earth on July 27, Powell confronts prot, who explains that it is a predetermined date. Thereafter, most of the patients at the Institute ask prot to take them with him. prot, who claims to have journeyed to Earth by means of "faster-than-light travel," explains that he can take one person with him when he returns. Prot also wins over the other patients at the Institute, each of whom believes unquestioningly that he is indeed from K-PAX. Powell introduces him to a group of astrophysicists who are befuddled when prot displays a highly detailed level of knowledge about his claimed star system that was unknown to them. His medical examination only reinforces his story, as prot can see ultraviolet light and he is completely resistant to the effects of Thorazine. However, prot is unwavering in his ability to provide cogent answers to questions about himself, K-PAX, and its civilizations. Mark Powell attempts to cure him of his apparent delusions. During his treatment, the patient demonstrates an outlook on life that ultimately proves inspirational for his fellow patients and especially for his psychiatrist.Īfter claiming he is an extraterrestrial from the planet 'K-PAX', 1,000 light years away in the Lyra constellation, prot (not capitalized and pronounced with a long O, rhyming with boat) is committed to the Psychiatric Institute of Manhattan. The film is about a psychiatric patient who claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX. An American-German co-production, it was directed by Iain Softley, starring Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, and Alfre Woodard. K-PAX is a 2001 science fiction mystery film based on Gene Brewer's 1995 novel of the same name.
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