Identity essays

Identity essays Identity at first sight appears to be a movie about ten travelers who are caught in a savage rainstorm and are forced to seek refuge at a strange desert motel. The movie soon develops into a thriller as the audience learns that there is a killer among the group and one by one, they are murdered. As the storm rages on and the dead begin to outnumber the living, and one thing becomes clear: Each of them was drawn to the motel, not by accident or circumstance, but by forces beyond imagination, forces that promise anyone who survives a mind-bending and terrifying destiny. Underneath all this, the audience discovers that the entire motel scenario was a creation in the mind of Malcolm Rivers, a mental patient diagnosed with Split/Multiple Personality Disorder. Malcolm Rivers is on trial for murders he committed in the past. The doctor, judge, and lawyers attempt to determine his sanity at the time of these murders and to bring him to justice accordingly. The doctor discovers, through evidence in Malcolms diary and through his own tests and sessions with Malcolm, of the existence of 10 personalities or identities in Malcolms body Rhodes, Paris, Larry, Ed, George York, Alice York, Timmy York, Ginny, Lou, and Caroline Suzanne. We discover that each identity is slowly killed off to reveal Malcolms true identity. There are many takes and theories on the actually true identity of Malcolm Rivers, but the one seems most plausible to me personally is Timmy York. Timmy is the last surviving identity in Malcolms body. He appears to represent Malcolms shattered bo yhood that was traumatized by his prostitute mothers abandonment of him at a motel. This makes sense as the entire movie generally takes place in a motel and Timmy ends up killing Paris, a prostitute, last as if taking revenge on his mother. For some reason, Timmy becomes aware that the others at the motel were only iden ...