English title: Man Facing Southeast.
Synopsis: A man appears in a psychiatric institution claiming to be from another planet.
Appraisal: The film sheds some light on the legend of Jesus, viewed in connection with the concept of mental sanity, both in its individual and collective forms. The analysis is correct but incomplete; it would take a brutally honest filmmaker to investigate this kind of phenomenon (I mean Messianism, not extraterrestrials) in a really powerful way. The premise was reused in K-PAX (2001), to even dismaler results.
Rating: 40
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