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SPLENDID FILM!
Subject: K-PAX
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002
From: Rhyne
K-PAX, a splended
film! And another brilliant and knockout performance added to Spacey's
heavyweight belt.
Rhyne Pascual
Victorville, California
HAVE
YOU SEEN...
Subject: K-Pax
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001
From: Wsricks@aol.com To:
Have you ever
seen the foriegn movie "The man facing south-east"
...k-pax is almost an exact copy of this former flick!
MODERN
ANGEL
Subject: K-Pax
Date:
Mon, 17 Dec 2001
From: Adam Hsu
Prot is a modern
kind of angel who give Homo sapiens a relieve from his pain, one
that sometimes seems not easy to be relieved from (like wife and
daughter were raped and killed, a painful experience that nobody
can take it). In this movie, Robert Porter's pain is hatred, which,
in the other extreme, is love. That means, only love can cure it.
Prot (or Porter) can describe the planet K-Pax so well, the only
possibility is that it must be true that he is the alien (or angel),
or so the author wants you to believe. In my opinion, it doesn't
matter whether it is a trueth or not, it is the human's great and
beautiful capability on "imagination" that counts. The author's
imagination is equal to those who used to write the Bible ( I mean,
who can be more imaginable than authors who said that "in the beginning,
the God creates the heaven and earth? that means these Bible's authors
created the God, and Gene Brewer created the Prot.)
I gives this
movie a 9-10 rating.
Adam Hsu
I
LIKED THE MOVIE
Subject: K-PAX
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001
From: "AL CRACKENBERG"
MY WIFE AND
I WENT TO SEE K-PAX. I LIKED THE MOVIE, THOUGH NOT AS MUCH AS MIKE
FURCHES. I GAVE IT A GRADE OF B+, THOUGH I MUST ADMIT I AM A VERY
HARD GRADER. THERE WERE A LOT OF CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE AND THAT
GOT TO BE A LITTLE CONFUSING TO ME. JEFF BRIDGE'S RELATIONSHIP WITH
HIS WIFE AND KIDS AND CO-WORKERS AND PRIOR MARRIAGE AND FAMILY HAD
ME CONFUSED AS TO WHAT WAS GOING ON. THE CHARACTER, PROT, WAS INDEED
A CHRIST-LIKE FIGURE. HE HAD MANY UNEXPLAINED COMINGS AND GOINGS.
HE PERFORMED INTRIGUING FEATS WITH COMMON FOLK AND LEARNED FOLK;
AND HIS VIEW OF RELATIONSHIPS WAS SO UNUSUAL THAT ALL TOOK NOTICE
OF HIM. THERE WERE VERY MANY BIBLICAL REFERENCES AND QUOTES THROUGHOUT
THE MOVIE, ALL DONE IN A VERY RESPECTFUL MANNER (UNLIKE THE BIBLE
QUOTING HIT-MAN IN PULP FICTION). THE MOVIE DID TREAT MENTAL ILLNESS
IN A LIGHT THAT WAS UNUSUAL, NOT CONDESCENDING BUT WITH A GREAT
DEAL OF DIGNITY. I AGREE WITH MIKE THAT THE MOVIE SHOULD BE INTERPRETED
BY EACH INDIVIDUAL. IT SEEMS SOME REVIEWERS ARE REACTING AGAINST
THE SPIRITUAL MESSAGE AS MUCH AS THE MOVIE. BE SURE TO STAY FOR
THE CREDITS. AFTER THE CREDITS THERE IS A SPECIAL P.S. THAT GIVES
THE MOVIE SOME EXTRA ADDED FOOD FOR THOUGHT. AL CRACKENBERG
IT
SOUNDS LIKE AN ARGENTINIAN MOVIE I SAW A FEW YEARS AGO!
Subject: K-PAX
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 14:24:20 -0400
From: Gary A.
Hi! K Pax, will
come to Bolivia in a few months I suppose.
But, from the
description in the review in the HollywoodJesus site, I can tell
you, that it seems the argument is a copy of the Argentinean movie
"Hombre mirando al Sudeste" (Man Looking to Southwest), in which
a man appears claiming to be an extra terrestrial, being put in
a mental institution and then turning the life an concepts of all
the people in the hospital. The supposed alien is shown displaying
some feats that carries Christian references.
I will like
to know if Eliseo Subiela (the director of "Hombre mirando al Sudeste"),
knows about this movie.
Gary A. Valenzuela
La Paz - Bolivia
-- "We don't
do it for the glory. We don't do it for the recognition. We do it
because it needs to be done. Because if we don't, no one else will.
And we do it even if no one knows what we've done. Even if no one
knows we exist. Even if no one remembers that we ever existed."
*** Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)
*** Christmas With The Superheroes #2 (Dec 1989)
MORE
FACTS...
Subject: K-Pax
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001
From: "gvh"
Hi!... Here
are the proof that you need to check: http://us.imdb.com/Details?0091214
The above URL is the IMDB entry for the "Hombre mirando al Sudeste"
film, that K-Pax is carbon-copying.
Gary A. Valenzuela
La Paz - Bolivia
-- "We don't
do it for the glory. We don't do it for the recognition. We do it
because it needs to be done. Because if we don't, no one else will.
And we do it even if no one knows what we've done. Even if no one
knows we exist. Even if no one remembers that we ever existed."
-Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) -Christmas With The Superheroes #2 (Dec
1989)
REVIEW
Subject: K-Pax
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001
From: "David
Great review
of a great movie.
David
COMMENT
Subject: K-Pax
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001
From: Sue Ferguson
I missed the
emphasis on the teachings of Jesus. There was one mention of Him,
that those on earth had failed to understand the teachings of Jesus
and Buddha. Scripture was background noise, endless repetition of
mental patients. The message of the film was that the earth is constantly
expanding and then falling back in on itself. There is no meaning,
except what we give out lives. For me, this was the philosophical
framework of the film. There is much that did not add up. The film
was definitely interesting, with good acting by Bridges and Spacey.
But philosophically, it was a rip off.
Sue Ferguson
NAMES
IN THE MOVIE...
Subject: K-Pax
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001
From: Slik
His wife's name
was Sarah and daughter was Rebecca...that's Abraham's wife and daughter's
name...and Prot gave that guy three task...and the second one was
to help is friend by almost killing him similiar to Abraham sacrificing
Isaac.
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