Powder (1995)

Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Mary Steenburgen, Jeff Goldblum, Lance Henriksen, etc

Directed by Victor Salva

In a small farm in Texas there was an albino man (even more whiter than an albino) who has a highly intellectual capacity from reading plenty of books kept for him by his grandparents under the basement. He went out of the house after his grandma died and found refuge with a local Child Services agent assisted by the local sheriff. His first encounter with the real world was extraordinary, and so was the people around him. Later on in every encounter he shows a lot of electrical capacity within his body, from producing a strong magnet out of rubbing a spoon, a strong bipolar electrical attraction from an open-switched Jacob's ladder in a science class, a transfer of 'dying' electrical impulses from a dying deer to the hunter-policeman, to even an electrical 'communication' between the sheriff and her comatose wife.

A simple drama about the not-so-ordinary man in the real world, in literal terms the electric-energy theories bounded by the concept of the story seems somewhat probable yet it also still tends to show us what lies between what anyone feels towards him and how he 'translates' the community's feelings of pride, prejudice, and anger as only plain simple fear only he can understand.