In one scene Powder is on a camping trip with the boys from the home where the state has placed him. While out walking in the woods, Powder hears a shot and goes to investigate. Upon arriving at the scene he finds a group of boys and the local deputy standing around a deer lying on the ground. The deputy had come on the trip along with the sheriff to supervise the outing, and in the meantime decided to do a little hunting. Powder is enraged and drops down beside the animal touching his neck. At the same time the deputy grabs his hand to lift the boy up. By doing this Powder transmits the dying feelings of the animal through himself to the deputy. The deputy starts crying uncontrollably because he can feel the pain and the fright of what dying is like for this beautiful creature. ((The deputy is never the same afterwards because he can't shake that feeling of fear... ))
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In life there often are those who do not fit in with the norms of society. Such ways of their existance could be a testament to their uniqness or rather to the solitude of their existances. In Powder the existance of one human being is both a testatment to uniqueness as well as the quiets of solitude.
Covered in white, in albinoish tint, teased by all, there exists one who can share understanding and power with the world. He shows a hunter the pain he inflicts on a deer by touching the deer and then having the hunter touch him. Electrical powers, the ability to move spoons, such are showcases of power, that this being seeks to minimize. In one scene all the forks and spoons from a lunch room are stuck together as if by magic.
At the end of the movie this white being clad in mystique, not understood, and always alone, looks to the sky. He then vanishes like a streak of energy, spread everywhere in the world, but yet no where. The movie speaks to those who are different; those who seek what others will not ever wish to find. Understanding, enlightenment, even oneness with the universe, to some these are scary things. To powder they are the ways of his world.
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