K-PAX

Kevin Spacey being fat.

Yes, I know it’s old, fuck you. I don’t need people to tell me things I can clearly discover myself, mum.

2001’s K-PAX saw Kevin Spacey become Kevin Space-man. I know that was a lousy pun, but I didn’t exactly have much to work with. Let’s see how many I can get away with.

Kevin SpaceJam plays Prot, a man who claims he comes from a planet, K-PAX, 1000 light years away in the constellation we know as Lyra. Prot ends up in a psychiatric hospital because he’s creepily calm and looks like a pedo-rapist with his pedo-rapist demeanor. While inside the loony bin, Prot is treated by Dr. Mark Powell (Jeff Bridges) – who becomes fascinated by the certainty of Prot in his delusion and his ever convincing stories and evidence. The two become rather close, in a completely heterosexual way, and Powell tries every psych trick he knows to attempt to dispel Prot’s delusions and amnesia.

What makes this movie stand-out is its uncertainty. We are never told one way or the other whether Prot is genuinely from another planet or if he is just bat-shit mental. We never find out where Bess goes and we are never told what happened Jeff Bridges career since the late 90's. Blown Away was fucking awesome. Make more movies like that Jeff. Through the course of the film we are given evidence to support both claims to the story, which I won’t divulge as they may be a bit of a spoiler. The story is brilliantly written, and you never know whether or not to believe Prot or Dr. Powell, even after all you learn throughout the film.

Kevin Spacepeople is great. He can play anything and play it well. Jeff Bridges was Jeff Bridges, and not circa Tron. He’s good, but Kevin Space-time-continuum really steals the show with his performance as the curious visitor/total nutter. We also see David Patrick Kelly make a comeback, who I don’t think has had a role since 1979’s The Warriors. If he has, I don’t remember it, and who gives a shit anyway.

Kevin Spacecraft has some great lines in this movie, some seeming to be far out of reach of his possible human origin. To fill a paragraph with plagiarized material i blatantly stole from Kevin Space-race's character, “I would say that you misread Einstein, Dr. Powell. May I call you Mark? You see Mark, what Einstein actually said was that nothing can accelerate to the speed of light because its mass would become infinite. Einstein said nothing about entities already traveling at the speed of light or faster, various multiples of ‘C’.”
Heavy shit. I’d love to watch this movie after punching a few cones. Your head would either explode, or you would become a crying, blubbering mass of hopelessness.

Do yourself a favor though. If you haven’t seen it already go out to your nearest Video-Ezy and rent this bad ass motherfucker. It’d be a weekly by now, so it’s definitely worth the $2 to rent. If you have already seen it, watch it again. Don’t argue, do as your told for once. Fucking kids.

I’ll leave you now with this quote. Let it sink in as you sit reading this, at work probably – because you are a great employee.
“The universe will expand, then it will collapse back in on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don't you know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.”

Kevin SpaceGhost-CoastToCoast.

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