百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析:[22]K-PAX K星異客

After claiming he is an extraterrestrial from the planet “K-PAX”，1,000 light years away, in the Lyra constellation, prot(uncapitalized and rhyming with “goat”，played by Kevin Spacey)is committed to the Psychiatric Institute of Manhattan. There psychiatrist Mark Powell(Jeff Bridges)evaluates him to find if he is delusional. However, prot is unwavering in his ability to provide cogent answers to questions about himself, K-PAX and its civilization. Dr. Powell introduces him to a group of astrophysicists, where prot claims to have journeyed to Earth by means of “light-travel” and goes on to display a level of knowledge that puzzles them.

Prot also exhibits considerable influence over the other patients at the Institute, each of whom believes unquestioningly that he is indeed from K-PAX. Prot has explained that he can take one person with him when he returns. Thereafter most of the patients at the institute ask to be taken to K-PAX.

Upon learning that many of his patients expect to leave Earth on July 27, Dr. Powell confronts prot, who explains that it is a predetermined date. However， Powell believes this to be a significant date in prot's life, a day on which he suffered a severe psychological trauma. Powell then decides to subject prot to regression hypnosis, which works well. Using information gained from these sessions, Powell figures out that prot may simply be an alter ego(the result of Multiple Personality Disorder)of Robert Porter, whose life has been devastated by the murder of his wife and child in 1996 and his subsequent killing of the perpetrator.

On July 27, prot is found lying, catatonic, under his bed and one of the other patients, Bess, is missing. She is never found, and prot never wakes up. The other patients do not recognize Robert as he is being wheeled out of the room. Later prot explains to Powell how we repeat the same mistakes over and over again, so the only way is to have it right this time around. Powell reconciles with his estranged son.

普洛特(凱文·史派西飾)自稱來自天琴座附近，距離地球一千光年的K-PAX星，被當(dāng)做精神病人，在曼哈頓的一家精神病院居住。精神病醫(yī)生馬克·鮑威爾(杰夫·布里吉斯飾)對他進行檢測，看他是否患有妄想癥，但是普洛特對有關(guān)K-PAX星和上面居民知識的了解讓人將信將疑。鮑威爾醫(yī)生把他轉(zhuǎn)交到天體物理學(xué)家那里，在那里，普洛特說自己以超光速來到地球，并提出了一些讓他們費解的問題。

普洛特在精神病院對其他病人產(chǎn)生巨大影響，他們都深信普洛特是來自K-PAX星的，當(dāng)普洛特答應(yīng)帶他們其中一人回去的時候，病人們都爭先恐后，希望那個人是自己。

得知許多病人都期待著在7月27號離開地球，鮑威爾醫(yī)生找到普洛特，普洛特告訴他這是一個事先預(yù)定好的日子。鮑威爾意識到這個日子對普洛特來說很重要，有可能與他精神受到創(chuàng)傷有關(guān)，于是給普洛特進行催眠回憶療法，得到了許多有用的信息。鮑威爾由此推斷，普洛特是有多重人格障礙癥患者羅伯特·波特的第二重人格。早在1996年，羅伯特遭受極度打擊，他的妻子和孩子遭謀殺，羅伯特以牙還牙殺死了罪犯。

7月27日，人們發(fā)現(xiàn)普洛特躺著一動不動，再也沒有醒來，另外一名病人貝茲也失蹤不見了，被推出病房的軀殼是病人們不認(rèn)識的羅伯特。最后，普洛特留給鮑威爾一句話：我們不斷重復(fù)著錯誤，唯一的途徑就是及時糾正錯誤。鮑威爾終于和他疏遠的兒子和解了。

重點掌握

■ The other patients do not recognize Robert as he is being wheeled out of the room.

我們都知道，在英語中，wheel有“輪子;推動，滾動”的意思，所以文中的wheel out是“用(帶輪子的工具)把……推出去”的意思，比如：Let's wheel the rubbish out. 咱們把垃圾推出去吧。