I haven't seen this movie in a while so I apologize for the vagueness.
Prot suffers a traumatizing event and attempts to end his life.
This can be seen as him succeeding in his attempt,(I'll explain later..) or though he fails to terminate his physical form his mental form is destroyed and he becomes someone new while still residing in the same "vessel" This is similar to the phoenix rising from its ashes or the concept of false self true self in psychology.
The major clues that tell you what's really happening is When prot tells the doctor (not verbatim )"why is a soap bubble round? It's the most energy efficient. On your planet I look like you (a human) on k- pax I look like a k-paxian."
The doctor, and the rest of the hospital staff is expending all of their energy trying to "cure" the patients. His marriage is suffering because of it.
One of the mental patients asks prot how he (the patient) can know he's getting better ( again not verbatim) and prot tells him to look for the blue bird
then the mental patients spot a blue bird outside the window. It makes them happy and giddy and the woman that wouldn't come out of her room comes out to see. You can see the other patients are better too but again I haven't watched this in a long time so I can't remember all the details, view it for yourself to see.
Later one of the mental patients tells prot she knows he was the blue bird
The blue bird was the most energy efficient form to help the mental patients feel better and to help save the doctors marriage by offloading some of the energy the doctor is expending.
When one of the patients tries to strangle one of the other ones, the victim of this altercation is "cured" of his phobia of germs. He says that they basically "brought him back" to life. This can be seen as the rebirth process that Robert/ prot may have undergone himself.
The reason the "k-paxian" takes the energy efficient form of Robert Porter is because the doctor whose marriage is falling apart can be seen as Robert/prots traumatic event of losing his family.
The ending is a little unclear and leaves me a bit confused. When Robert/prot is catatonic and unable to speak or move at the end it suggests that maybe Robert was "possessed" by "prot" the k-paxian. Or maybe it could suggest that prot was the doctor projecting himself onto Robert the whole time. When we see the light beam shining through the crystal projecting a rainbow of light into the doctors face this could be a clue for that , it could be sayinf that the doctor has multiple "personalities " but I'm really uncertain.
This is just purely my interpretation though so take it with a grain of salt I would highly recommend viewing it through this lens though in case you missed all of it and are just thinking what was it about??
Prot suffers a traumatizing event and attempts to end his life.
This can be seen as him succeeding in his attempt,(I'll explain later..) or though he fails to terminate his physical form his mental form is destroyed and he becomes someone new while still residing in the same "vessel" This is similar to the phoenix rising from its ashes or the concept of false self true self in psychology.
The major clues that tell you what's really happening is When prot tells the doctor (not verbatim )"why is a soap bubble round? It's the most energy efficient. On your planet I look like you (a human) on k- pax I look like a k-paxian."
The doctor, and the rest of the hospital staff is expending all of their energy trying to "cure" the patients. His marriage is suffering because of it.
One of the mental patients asks prot how he (the patient) can know he's getting better ( again not verbatim) and prot tells him to look for the blue bird
then the mental patients spot a blue bird outside the window. It makes them happy and giddy and the woman that wouldn't come out of her room comes out to see. You can see the other patients are better too but again I haven't watched this in a long time so I can't remember all the details, view it for yourself to see.
Later one of the mental patients tells prot she knows he was the blue bird
The blue bird was the most energy efficient form to help the mental patients feel better and to help save the doctors marriage by offloading some of the energy the doctor is expending.
When one of the patients tries to strangle one of the other ones, the victim of this altercation is "cured" of his phobia of germs. He says that they basically "brought him back" to life. This can be seen as the rebirth process that Robert/ prot may have undergone himself.
The reason the "k-paxian" takes the energy efficient form of Robert Porter is because the doctor whose marriage is falling apart can be seen as Robert/prots traumatic event of losing his family.
The ending is a little unclear and leaves me a bit confused. When Robert/prot is catatonic and unable to speak or move at the end it suggests that maybe Robert was "possessed" by "prot" the k-paxian. Or maybe it could suggest that prot was the doctor projecting himself onto Robert the whole time. When we see the light beam shining through the crystal projecting a rainbow of light into the doctors face this could be a clue for that , it could be sayinf that the doctor has multiple "personalities " but I'm really uncertain.
This is just purely my interpretation though so take it with a grain of salt I would highly recommend viewing it through this lens though in case you missed all of it and are just thinking what was it about??
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