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Movie Introduction:
"Identity" is a 2003 American thriller and suspense film directed by James? Mangold, starring John? Cusack, Ray? Lyotta, Amanda? Pitt, and others. The film's plot is inspired by Agatha? Christie's novel "And Then There Were None." It is a thriller drama centered around a murder game. The plot is tightly structured, the plot flows smoothly, and the ending is unexpected.
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On a pitch-black night, a vast desert wasteland is swept away by a raging storm, leaving a motel standing inside completely isolated from the outside world, with roads blocked and communication cut off.
Eleven strangers who previously knew each other completely are forced to gather in this crumbling motel. Larry is the owner of this motel, and his unusual behavior seems to be hiding many secrets. Ed was once a police officer and now drives his private car for actress Caroline Susan. They have to take Alice to the motel for treatment after hitting her on the road. Alice, her husband George, and son Timsey are driving when their car suddenly blows out a tire. When they get out to check, Alice is hit by Ed's car. Paris is a prostitute who, while looking for a lighter, drops a high heel out of the car. As a result, it is the high heel that causes Alice's car to blow out a tire. Ed wants to see a doctor, but on the way, he encounters Lu and Genie. Because the rain is so heavy, they have to return to the motel. Officer Rhode escorts a criminal into the motel. The eleven people are divided into different rooms, each holding a room key with a number.
Terrifying events happen quickly: actress Caroline Susan is unexpectedly murdered, her head horrified inside the laundry machine. She also has a room key with number 10 in her hand. Soon after, Lu was stabbed to death, holding a key to a room with number 9. Everyone couldn't help but worry—could they have died in this order? They also discovered something in common: their surnames were named after their states, they were born in the same --- Nevada, and their birthdays were the same—May 10.The results confirm their suspicions. The prison inmates, George, Alice, and Ginny all die in the same order.
Paris finds a criminal record inside the police car, proving that Rod was not actually a police officer; he and the fugitive killed the police officer and impersonated them. When Rhodes found out, he was desperate to kill Paris to silence him. He killed Larry and injured Ed. At the last moment, Ed killed Rod. In the end, only Paris survived. When Paris actually reached the place she wanted to go....... but in fact, none of this existed; these 11 people (including the children) were all 11 split personalities of McKen Reeve. These eleven personalities alternately control his body, and the evil personality formed by Mikan Reeve's childhood abuse from a prostitute mother brutally murdered six people four years earlier in a motel in reality. On the eve of his final death sentence, his attending psychiatrist Malik discovered a diary from Mikan Reeve's childhood. This diary further confirmed the doctor's theory that McKen Reeve's murder was caused by his schizophrenia. The doctor then informed the judge to urgently interrogate McKen Reeve. Malik and McKen Reeve spoke before the judge to extract the evil personality from his body, and thus the story unfolded.
That's right, they are the eleven personalities within Mikan Reeve's heart. One of them is that evil soul, and that world is Mikan Reeve's inner world, so this person's worldview differs slightly from the real world. The doctor converses in reality with one of the kind and brave personalities (Ed), tells him the truth, and asks him to help McKen Reeve root out that evil personality. Afterwards, the kind personality and an evil personality (Rod) perish together, with only one female personality (Paris) escaping the grasp.
The story ends with the hidden evil personality (Timsy) killing Paris, who was actually killed earlier.
All six personalities were actually Timsy's doing.
When Mikan Reeve was young, his mother was a prostitute who abused him, so Timsy is the evil soul personality Miken Reeve had nurtured since childhood. At the end of the film, this evil personality kills Dr. Malik and a prison driver.
The characters in the story include: a family of three (George, Alice, Timsy), Ed, a female celebrity, a prostitute, a couple, two criminals (including the one pretending to be a cop), the shop owner (fake), the person in the freezer, and the police officer (killed by two criminals).
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\Recommended Note: Anyone who has seen this movie knows it's a high-IQ movie. The camera cuts between two scenes (the murder scene and the scene of the dissociative identity disorder shooter) are baffling. This movie was rated online as one of the "Top Ten High-IQ Movies." The movie's ending is somewhat shocking (though I don't think so; maybe I'm too smart and already guessed the culprit~). If you want to truly understand the plot, it's best to watch it twice~
