A Superb Movie

Rating: 10/10 (17 September 2010)

In order to establish a point of reference for this movie, here are some movies I consider excellent. Right off the top...
Recently: Identity, Thin Red Line, Little Miss Sunshine, When Trumpets Fade, Charlie Wilsons War (revealing), Inside John Malkovich, The village, Inception (a good movie owing to the subject matter but not for the film itself or the acting).. and many more not mentioned here.
Older movies: Hell in the Pacific (a must see), Dangerous Liasons, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, And Justice for All, Dog day in the afternoon, Serpico, The killing fields, etc.
Anyway, about this movie "Identity", I've seen it many times. At times I shut off the video to listen to the soundtrack in the background while I work on other stuff to try and find "the" connection between whats happening in the movie and what's happening underneath my conscious reality - as I perceive it. Am I inferring I might have MPD and am unaware of it? No. In that there is no loss of time rules that out. Still, that is not to say there are distinct "other" personalities lurking within that have a logic all their own: Because They are there. Freuds very relevant work in the field of psychology (not psychiatry) which was later made accessible in the book "Im OK you're OK" by Dr. Thomas Harris - makes this fact amply clear.
Still, going a bit beyond Freuds precepts or those made evident thru Transactional Analysis there is this other exceptionally neat idea (reality more like) of roles assigned to us by society or as Jung would put "the collective consciousness" by a guy John Bradshaw in his book "healing the shame that binds you". But why bring this up? What do the principles or ideas in these books have to do with movie "identity" - Everything! There is a key here - a key to a door. A Door that leads to maybe, just maybe, a truer self? The movie identity forces me to ask questions like these and in doing its function is fulfilled.
Assuming we are all acting at all times (like so-called normal people do and will continue to do) and living out these roles assigned to us by the mass consciousness, what does that say about us? Does the fact that we are all questionably "LIVING" out these assembled roles and identities not lead to a higher question of our validity? Are we real or not... Doggoneit? More to point are we even alive or Yikes! manifestations of Virtual Reality? Could that be called life? Still, whether it is it's intention or not, the co-efficient of 'identity' is one big looming question; Are YOU really YOU? If you are not you.. are you not then in reality a FRankenstein? Yes! Absolutely Yes! So I have a look at 'identity' now and then because (with the innocence of a child) it hands me a mirror and says "wanna have a look?".