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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I saw K-Pax the other day and enjoyed it. It was very similar to the fantastic 1986 Argentine film, Man Facing Southeast, which was also about a man in a mental institution who claimed to from another planet. (Man Facing Southeast predated both the K-Pax novel and movie.)
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Tom, thanks for recommending
Man Faces Southeast. I looked up more about it at
wikipedia and it seems like it will a very interesting psychological sci-fi to see. Indeed, it seems this is the more original concept of an alien in a psych ward.
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Little known outside Argentina, Man Facing Southeast received wider exposure upon the 2001 release of Universal Pictures' K-PAX, whose similarity to the Argentine title (whose author and director, Eliseo Subiela, was not credited) was unmistakable to film enthusiasts and critics, among them Robert Koehler of Variety and Bob Strauss of the Los Angeles Times, both of whom expressed surprise at K-PAX author Gene Brewer's contention that Man Facing Southeast was unfamiliar to him. Film critics at MSNBC, for their part, commented that "both films are quite similar, though Man Facing Southeast is more ingenious and enigmatic.
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I will be watching this movie soon. Hopefully it will be "ingenious and enigmatic".