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Please, please, it's time for the DVD!
This movie is to K-Pax as the remake of Solaris is to the original. This movie has haunted me for years, ever since I first watched it. I am not wild about some of the scenes toward the end, but the scene with the brain at the sink is one of the best of all time. Is Rantes mad? Or is he telling the truth about himself? This movie really deserves to come out on DVD.
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Please, please release on DVD!
This is a fantastic movie (echoing what others have said) -- moving and gripping, with moments of sheer delight. The Beethoven's Ninth scene is phenomenal. I only wish I could see it again -- I saw a friend's laserdisc, then rented it on VHS -- and now it's gone. It's in my top 5 of most wanted movies. Would be perfect for a Criterion release.....
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Rantes = John From Cincinnati???
I too cherish my VHS copy of this amazing film. Why this hasn't become available on DVD escapes me. I dust off the tape about once a year. Time to get it out again now that JFC has only one ep left. I wonder if Mr. Milch has seen this?
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One of the Most Beautiful Films Ever Made, Seen or Unseen
I've been yearning for this to come out on DVD somewhere, anywhere, since the dawn of the DVD age.
I've put it on lists, mentioned it in other reviews, and now that it seems to be getting some attention again with 3 reviews from 2006 and 1 so far from 2007, maybe if enough of us agitate someone will come to their senses and put it out.
I think I have every other Subila film out on DVD, even Pequnos Milagros from Taipei which (I hope) is legal but isn't out anywhere else. When I saw that Lado Oscuro 2 was playing in theatres in Argentina, I despaired of ever seeing it. let alone owning it, but I got the DVD from Spain before it was out anywhere else.
Now it is time for the key to all Subiela's films to make it to DVD. Is it the best? That's hard to say with Lado Oscuro 1 out there, but at the very least it is the philosophical and artistic key.
Write reviews. Agitate. Make a Joyful Noise. Get this released on DVD.
The infulence for the far inferior K-Pax, the film that many of us feel to be a tribute to Philip K Dick (note Rantes' sister's name) has to be seen by everyone who loves real SF and who loves real Cinema.
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One Of The Most Beautiful Films I've Ever Seen
Aside from one unnecessary sex scene and a doom-and-gloom ending, this movie was about as near to perfect as any I've ever seen. It captures the horror and hopelessness and spiritual death of so many in our modern world, and it offers an unusually huge and beautiful and inspiring glimpse into the potential for something new and great.
Rantes, the main character, is a modern and believable Jesus figure - a born leader with passion and wisdom and a rare soul. Although this movie presents him as an alien who has superhuman power and lacks feelings, he really represents the human ideal - and the inner teacher and inner capacity for perfection we all have.
His intelligent and all-but-hopeless psychiatrist represents the broken norm - desperately struggling to find truth but unable to accept or acknowledge it when it comes knocking on the door.
The therapy in the movie represents the emotional reality of the modern mental health system - spiritually corrupt, anti-healing, drugged to the hilt, and boundariless when it suits the therapist (who has sex with his patient's best friend - though the movie fails to acknowledge the betrayal in this and instead presents it in a somewhat positive light!).
The caring patient, on the flip side, becomes the template for a good therapist, and his scenes of healing - especially the scene in which he leads the outdoor orchestra - are no less than magnificent.
I recommend this movie, in spite of its few flaws, with all my heart. It offers more scenes that got me to cry harder and deeper than any movie I've seen in a long time. Give yourself the gift and watch it. If only we could all become like Rantes. Perhaps we can. And perhaps this movie's negative ending need not be reality...
