Somewhere out there* - James Ingram and Linda Ronstad

Prologue: I was just going through my drafts folder and i found this post! I can't really remember why i did not post it up at that time. It is dated on the 4th December 2006! Anyways, better late than never. Just be warned - super spoilers ahead!

One of the benefits of living in London is that i have satelite TV!!!! Woohoo!!!! And altho my host doesn't subscribe to that many channels (no Sky Sports!!!!!!!! boo-hoo), there're still plenty of stuffs to watch.

Being a movie freak, i've been watching so many movies, movies which i've always wanted to watch but never got round to. Like K-PAX. Surely this has to be a brilliant movie - Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges together! And it was brilliant!

Spacey plays Prot, the character who alleges that he's an alien from planet K-PAX, somewhere out there! Bridges plays the psychiatrist who has to treat him.

The shades look familiar? According to IMDB, it's Bono's!!!
Poster obtained from www.moviemaze.de

I was so afraid of the ending - scared that it'd spoil the movie which just gets better and better. It could only end 2 ways - either Prot is a loony or he is an alien. But the thought of either leaves much to be desired. For me, anyways. If it is the former, it'd be such an anti-climax. But if it's the latter, it'd be too much of a fantasy... or would it. And either way, it'd leave many questions unanswered.

At the end of the day, the movie brilliantly resolves the issue. I was wrong - there was a 3rd way of how the movie could end - and how it actually did end. It left it to you to decide. You can conclude whichever way you want and still be able to support your view based on the info given to us in the movie.

Me? The dreamer in me would like to believe that Prot was indeed a space-traveller, and that he took Bess home because to her, she has no home on earth.

But at the end of the day, as a critic said, it doesn't matter if Prot was indeed an alien or not - what mattered more was what he does with his conviction and how he changes the lives of those around him.

I think that to be so true. We may be Malaysian or British or Singaporean or Burmese. We may be Chinese or Indian or Caucasion. We are all different in so many ways but what is truly important is what our conviction is - and what we do about it to change the lives of people around us.

*The theme song from the movie, An American Tail.