The Film "K-Pax"

The film K-PAX directed by Iain Softley brings out many opinions in the minds of individuals. A mysterious man named Prot who gets picked up by New York police, is sent to a mental facility where he quickly gains the attention of fellow patients and staff. He claims he comes from the planet K-PAX and his amazing stories of this utopia makes it sound extremely convincing, and even baffles the psychiatrist Dr. Powell. Throughout the movie Prot shows both signs of human and non-human characteristics. This indeed adds the hair-raising question about Prot as a character. …