In general,
The movie is quite curious. Visually, the film is pleasant, many symbols and things that are pleasant to notice and embed in the context of the narrative. In the center of the plot are two characters: the first - Prot (Spacey) - claims that he is an alien from the planet K-Pax, the second - a doctor Max Powell in a mental hospital, where the first is placed. The doctor is trying to solve the mystery of the alien: to understand what his diagnosis is or whether he is really an alien. Prot, meanwhile, pours philosophical remarks about the social and in general order on Earth and causes good right and left, curing patients in the hospital along the way. They also show us the doctor's family. In general, I understood the message of the film: look at how important heteronormative family is to a man.
Behdel Test
The only tiny episode that can be mentioned to decide that a stretch movie passes the Behdel test takes place in a doctor's family. We see the moment when the doctor's wife teaches her daughter to play the piano: two women, both have names (Mother Rachel, daughter - either Natalie or Gabby), they are not talking about a man, however, we hear only the mother names notes. Probably, it still does not pass, rather than passes, because in this scene the doctor-father runs out of his home office, because the family members of the piano prevent him from working - to solve the mystery of the alien.
Women in the film
In the film, there are different spaces where women play different roles: the space of the planet Earth, which is represented by New York, the space of the planet K-Pax, the space of the hospital and the space of the doctor’s family. And from the position of femoptics, the Earth is presented very cool: in one of the first scenes, we immediately show a policewoman who conducts a survey of an incomprehensible alien citizen (behaving actively), then we see women among the employees of the hospital, even the head of the doctor is a woman, but the secretary is also a woman. I recently read an article about double standards in filmmaking, where the emphasis was that you wouldn’t see male secretaries. In Sex and the City, Samantha had a secretary, but the story ended unprofessionally. Remarkably, in the scene in the planetarium among the great scientists-doctors of astronomy and physics there are no women. But in general, in the city, in the hospital, there are women, they work, they occupy different positions, including leadership, but in this story, none of them plays a significant role, the engine of the plot is to some extent only the strict boss of the doctor, whose instructions force the doctor to work more intensely to meet the deadline to “save” his patient. Among the patients of the hospital there are women, but only two are singled out: one does not speak at all, and the second does not leave the ward, because she thinks she is something like a noblewoman. But the alien hero “saves” her and helps her to start going out to people and socialize.
On the planet K-Pax, Prot argues, the population does not start families, the reproductive process is very unpleasant and painful for both parties, and children are raised in turn. Nothing more is known about the social system. Despite the fact that the Earth is full of women and they play an active role, in the family of Dr. Powell, women (and there are only three of them: wife Rachel and daughters Natalie and Gabby, the full name is unknown, even in the credits she is Gabby) play the role of serving, decorative and entertaining, and also annoying and distracting from great mysteries. One of the daughters naturally dressed up in a princess costume. The first scene where we see the family is very revealing: the husband stayed at work, his wife meets him with dinner (she has already fed her daughters, and she was waiting for her husband), tells him something. He's not listening. She notices and begins to tell how she accidentally cut off her head today, but sewed it with dental floss. The husband hears only the last sentence about flossing and admits that he did not listen. Further see
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