A puzzle of personalities that lead to the true one.

Rating: 8/10 (5 October 2005)

A very well played out movie about a killer with Disociative Identity Disorder. Malcom Rivers remembers his mother as a whore and that he was abandoned at the age of nine and found in a motel. The movie takes that background and sets the scene in the very same atmosphere that Malcom was traumatized in. The movie begins to introduce the differing personalities that were involved in Malcolm's life as a child. The Stepfather who followed the letter of the law almost obsessively compulsive and even recited them. But because his mother was a whore the stepfather only represented the men that he met and tried to be nice to him but never really getting involved. The little boy Timothy who represents the silent killer as his silence denoted that he was only seen and never heard thus representing his abandonment. The actress who was only concerned with herself and basically is a not so nice person, The Driver who is a helper and one who is concerned for people. Other personalities were represented by the Boy and girl named Lou and Jenny who were married young. Lou had a temper and was known for infidelity and jenny who was vindictive and made Lou marry her. Officer Rose and the prisoner who both turned out to be escaped convicts however officer rose turned out to be the "more evil" of the two where as the other was a narcissistic know it all. Finally the whore, who stole mens wallets and tried to get out of her life and into a new one. Each character represented fragmentations of personalities that were created inside of Malcolm and Timmy was the personality that killed each one off as retribution to his mother and the atrocities that he encountered at the age of nine. I wish I had more room to write as I can talk about the psychological relations that were represented in each character of the movie all day. Timmy's last words "whores don't get a second chance" no doubt referred to his hatred of his mother...and his real life killings represented personalities that he saw in his mother and so deemed necessary to dispose of them. In my opinion the 6 killings left 4 people alive which represented the four different personalities of Malcolm but the strongest personality represented by Timmy killed the rest off leaving Malcolm hopelessly controlled by his rage and judgement of the traumas that afflicted him.