Identity movie

[djmarbll]

I just saw this film earlier this week. It was a very good film, but the ending was rather confusing. Has anyone seen it and care to elaborate?

[D J 1 3 8]

Warning: this will spoil the entire movie for you if you haven't seen it.

Basically, the majority of the film was not real. It took place inside the mind of the fat bald killer guy. The characters (John Cusack etc.) were all representations of his split personalities.

The only part that was actually happening was the legal hearing with the judge, lawyers, and the fat bald criminal. At that hearing, his psychiatrist went through an exercise to have all of his multiple personalities duke it out inside his head. The main point of that was: he had a lot of decent personalities and one evil killer personality. The idea was that, at the end of the exercise, there could be only one. So, one by one, people are getting killed off by the supposed bad personality. They make you believe that it's Ray Liotta, when if fact it turns out to be the kid, who, as you may recall, you never SEE get killed. You assume he blew up in the car but, alas, he did not.

So in the end it seems that the Amanda Peet character is the surviving personality, and in her dream world she is going off to grow oranges in Florida. However, as it turns out, the evil personality was the kid all along, who was still lurking around somewhere. he shows up at the last minute and re-takes control - killing her in the dream world and, as the fat bald criminal, killing the cops in the real world.

Capeesh?

[ May 01, 2003, 12:29 PM: Message edited by: DJ 138 ]

[GROOVE VICTIM]

Was it Ronin?


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[manfred]

this movie was ok at best. if not for cusack, liotta, and peete, i would have been very pissed that i saw this movie. good for a slasher/thriller flick though.

[MsTiye78]

Originally posted by DJ 138:
Warning: this will spoil the entire movie for you if you haven't seen it.

Basically, the majority of the film was not real. It took place inside the mind of the fat bald killer guy. The characters (John Cusack etc.) were all representations of his split personalities.

The only part that was actually happening was the legal hearing with the judge, lawyers, and the fat bald criminal. At that hearing, his psychiatrist went through an exercise to have all of his multiple personalities duke it out inside his head. The main point of that was: he had a lot of decent personalities and one evil killer personality. The idea was that, at the end of the exercise, there could be only one. So, one by one, people are getting killed off by the supposed bad personality. They make you believe that it's Ray Liotta, when if fact it turns out to be the kid, who, as you may recall, you never SEE get killed. You assume he blew up in the car but, alas, he did not.

So in the end it seems that the Amanda Peet character is the surviving personality, and in her dream world she is going off to grow oranges in Florida. However, as it turns out, the evil personality was the kid all along, who was still lurking around somewhere. he shows up at the last minute and re-takes control - killing her in the dream world and, as the fat bald criminal, killing the cops in the real world.

Capeesh? Yep you pretty much gave it away lol. Actually I liked the movie, to me it was one of the best psychological thrillers that I have seen. I loved this movie because it kept me always guessing and I have seen a lot of horror/suspense movies in which I can pretty much know what's going to happen at the end and what's going to happen next. This movie always keeps you guessing and on the edge of your seat. I was like what's going on because first I thought initially that it was the average Jason/Michael Myers serial killer movie . Then I thought it was going to be like a 2003 Clue movie during the middle of the movie. It was the prostitute with the knife and room 10 because it has u suspecting everyone by what the actors say and do. If you really pay attention to the movie it leads you to suspect the little boy because when they was all in the room together to make sure no one else gets killed. The little boy leaves out the room for just a second to where the mother is recovering from her accident and then returns but then she turns up dead. Then I thought lol, it was another version of Final Destination and accidents just happen because one person got hit by a car and another killed by a car and a car was blown up and what not. Then I was like this is not a serial killer or clue movie because people were being killed by accidents but according to their room # that they stayed in. However, strange supernatural things started to occur like the chairs shaking. One of the suspects stated that an Indian burial ground was next to the hotel so you thought that they were trying to reclaim their land back. Only at the end of the movie did you know that the characters were different identities of the convict who was on trial to determine whether or not he should be executed. At the end you think he has finally made a change for the better when the last personality standing fulfills her dream by going back to where she grew up in Florida and grows an orange patch. However, the little boy in which I believe signifies his personality when he was a child had never resolved the issues and traumas that he experienced when he was a child or received the treatment he needed. I say this because if you recall at the beginning his stepfather stated that his father left his mother because he had some issues (like he went crazy) but they didn't go into detail about it. Also, the driver who hit his mother asked him why he's so quiet because he never stated a word or showed any kind of emotions when his mother got hit by the car. Then that's when the step father was like he has always been like that since his father had left. So I think the point of the movie is that when children go through traumatic experiences when they are young they need to talk about it. They need help and it's not good to hold it in because it's just going to manifest into something else later on in life and also even when your older unresolved child issues need to be resolved.


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[ May 02, 2003, 09:41 AM: Message edited by: tiye ]

[djmarbll]

Thanks DJ 138. I was thinking something similar, but obscure clues were throwing me off, such as the Indian burial ground thing.