For me it has to be the windows of the hospital after the bluebird arrives.
Many small windows that look like boxes and very unhappy people in each of them.
Very representative of life in modern cities.
Something so insignificant as a blue jay has the power to alter their mental state. We could be far happier but choose to isolate ourselves or to drive others away. Even Doctor Powell as regards his son.
For me it's the constant use of refraction through glass, prisms, water, etc. to make visible rays of light. Beautiful to look at, and add to the atmosphere of wonder to this movie. Brilliant cinematography.
"Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?" -Carlin
I loved when they were all chanting "bluebird" it cracked me up
sharewell if all mental relief could be so easy. The movie tells us that it is in our power to change.
Does anyone know who tells Mrs. Archer to come out of her room when the bluebird is there?
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have to agree with coolguysandler. The imagery of the light refraction - especially when Prot returns from his trip 'up north' is mesmerising.
1. At the end, when Mark waiting at station and finally talk to his son, almost makes me crying.
2. When Prot telling Howie that he is not gonna take him to K-PAX.
Howie : You never give me the third task, what is it ?
Prot : To stay. And be prepared ... for anything.
"Something so insignificant as a blue jay has the power to alter their mental state."
Do you think that all the people knew the meaning of "the blue bird" or only the one who Prot talk about that?
If Prot is involved we are never sure what is really normal. He certainly has powers beyond the ordinary and who knows how far they extend.
On the level of the prosaic, this is a group of mental patients so mass hysteria is a possibility. Howie is given a task (one of three) and his excitement spreads.
However, I like to believe that the bird is ordinary and scene is an example of the joy that can be found in unexceptional things.
Nice post, thanks for the info
shareFor me, it is after Robert has found Sarah and Becky raped and murdered and he picks up Becky off the bed and holds her. Later, he goes out into the yard, where the water sprinkler is still running and when he kneels down to wash the blood off his hands, he breaks down crying and leans forward into the steam of water. That, for me, is the most powerful and heart-rending scene in the movie.
shareumm, interesting counter-point but to me that scene is "the most disturbing image in the movie"
Tragedy without end and no succour.
Being picked up and thrown into a psych ward when basically he is doing nothing in the middle of Central Station. The reason it hit home with me is because I have worked at mental institutions, and have had e.g. someone locked away because they were selling tickets for a spaceship voyage. Really? You get locked up for this? Read Thomas Szasz on the misuse of power. In the west if I say I am God, I get locked up. In the east I get my hand shook saing "Congratulations, you finally figured it out" (read Alan Watts - The Philosophies of Asia. Apart from that I thought this was a great movie. And folks, that's what it was. A movie. Fiction. Imagination. A story. And it did a great job of it. One of my all time favourites.
sharehave to agree with this for different reasons. i just love the way Prot follows the police and gets in the car. he came to observe and not dictate, and they look like obsessed and ridiculous hosts.
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