2001 · sci-fi · drama · mystery
K-PAX
Directed by Iain Softley2h 0m2001
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Our read: K-PAX (2001) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal sci-fi · drama · mystery entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured sci-fi / drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- surreal
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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“You want gentle sci-fi mystery about belief, trauma, and whether aliens need proof.”
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