Review of Identity (2003) by Annbd — 24 Jul 2018

Identity is a remarkable film. No doubt. I will call it a masterpiece and rate it with a 10, although in my opinion something very important is not included in the film.. And I will only say, that it's related to the real killings, you will see. But I think the film is genius and we should not crunch. Try to arrange the whole movie from the beginning of the protagonist's life to the day of his supposed ending. It's not that simple. You may have some idea about the end of the movie, but you will be surprised, when you begin to look into the details and find out more. But, for sure, you will be satisfied with this movie.

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~ Now.. SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!

(Only for those, who want to see a different point of view about the whole film after watching it).

~ Malcolm Rivers is a killer, who suffers from Dissociative identity disorder, a.k.a multiple personality disorder (he has 11 personalities). His mother was a prostitute, and his father left the family when he was two. Probably then he got his illness. It is not known when he was ill. What is certain, however, is that he committed six killings after he became ill. Michael was captured and arrested for his murders, then sentenced to execution. Michael has worked with his psychiatrist who has established his illness, which had never been known to anyone, and tried to justify it, because there are part of him - different personalities who are not guilty (not committed those 6 killings). So his doctor decided to make a new form of healing, gathering all the personalities in one place and the killer personality being killed by other personalities. What we see in the most part of the film is all 11 personalities trying to survive, because they knew, that the aim is killer personality to die. And here is the misleading part. NOT ONLY ONE personality is a killer, but MORE (Larry, the prostitute, the serial killer and probably Ed, the 'fake policeman' have killed for sure in the real life). Like I said all the personalities want to live. But there is one personality, that wants to kill the others and stay alone - the kid personality (he count them with the motel's keys from 10 like the 10 other personalities). It is accidental, that at the end the doctor dies, as Michael is in a "trance", imagining he kills the last personality in his head, but actually kills the doctor in reality. The most important thing in this film is that not only one personality was a killer, committing murders in real life, like the doctor thought, but most of them were.