K-Pax
- roundaboutway
- 6 feb 2015
- Tempo di lettura: 1 min
«Doctor. Patient. Interesting distinction.»
What:
K-Pax
Who:
Iain Softley (D), Charles Leavitt (S)
With:
Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack
When:
2001
Where:
USA
How:
Book, Colour, Language (English), Live Action, Medium, Professional (Health)
Why:
If a man feels great, he lives well, he's happy, he’s not dangerous for himself and for nobody else, he can take care of himself, but he believes to come from another planet, should doctors close him in a mental institute and risk to destroy his life? What is the aim and the utility of this treatment? Should they act considering his happiness or his "diversity, as more important"?
Should patients be considered by doctors as something more than a disease or a list of synthoms written in a textbook? Should they consider them in all they features and unicity?
Can a mad man change the mind of someone else with his words about life? Can he make the lives of the people around him better? Can he change your way to look at the world?
Extra:
According to the World Healt Organization, "health" is «a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity».
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