The movie I chose to write about is called Identity. Identity was released in 2003 and was directed by James Mangold as well as written by Michael Cooney. The movie itself was based off of a book entitled And Then There Were None, a mystery novel written by Agatha Christie. The movie opens with a narration of Malcolm Rivers in which he says; “As I was going up the stairs, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today. I wish, I wish he’d go away.” Malcolm Rivers is whom the entire movie revolves around. Rivers was on death row for several vicious murders he committed in an apartment building. He was scheduled to be executed the next day but there was evidence found that may prove that he was mentally unaware of what he was doing …show more content…
Malcolm Rivers has been diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder by his doctor. The notebook they found to be misfiled serves as evidence that he has different personalities and one of them may have committed the murders in the apartment building and not Rivers himself. While the trial is going on, there was a big rainstorm happening in a deserted area. Ten strangers were eventually stranded in a motel run by Larry Washington due to peculiar circumstances.. It began when Paris Nevada, a prostitute, drove down the road,one of her stilettos fall out of her car which later on impaled the York family’s tire causing them to get a flat. The York Family consists of George, Alice and their son Timmy. From there, Edward Dakota, a driver for Caroline Suzanne and a former cop, ran over Alice York with his car as he was trying to find a phone battery for a very agitated Caroline while the Yorks were replacing their tire in the road. Paris crashes her car while avoiding a flood in the storm and hitches a ride with Edward who is going to get help for Alice. He fails at this due to the flooding in all directions besides the hotel and ends up losing his car. This is where he confronts Lou and Ginny Isaiana asking …show more content…
The doctor attempts to speak to Malcolm but instead, we see Edward in the chair. That is when it is discovered that Edward Dakota is actually one of the ten personalities that lives in Rivers’ mind. The doctor is ultimately trying to prove that whoever was the ‘killer identity’ has been murdered as well meaning that Rivers is of no threat. This scene is what ties everything together. The ten strangers who were at the hotel are not strangers after all, they are the identities of Malcolm. As each of them die, a personality that Malcolm has dies as well. Each of the identities think that they are real people. That can be shown with the surprise Edward feels when he has a completely different face. The doctor explains to Ed that Malcolm has experienced a lot of trauma growing up and when a child is exposed to such trauma, the mind can split creating several different personalities. Context clues shown in the beginning of the movie backs the statement up. According to several newspaper articles and documents shown in the first three minutes of the film, Rivers’ mother was a prostitute named Callie Rivers. She abandoned Malcolm in a motel bathroom and he stayed there waiting for his mother to return. This can connect to the whole scenario the personalities are in. All of them are in a motel which is where Rivers was abandoned, one of the identities is a prostitute and all of them have the same birthday and are each fictional names that
Christopher Simmons was seventeen years old junior in high school when he committed a capital crime. Simmons discussed his plan to commit burglary & murder with friends sixteen year old Charles Benjamin and fifteen year old John Tessmer, by “breaking and entering”. Simmons and Benjamin entered victim Shirley Crooks home, where Simmons awaken her and entered her bedroom. Later in his confession Simmons told authorities that he and the victim met previously in an auto accident that involved both of them; which was is motivation to kill her. Simmons and his accomplice used duck taped & electric wire to restrain her, they then threw her over the bridge in the Meramec River where she drowned. Simmons went to school bragging to others what he had
One late night, in 1993 in Missouri, Christopher Simmons; a 17 year old boy along with two of his friends robbed a woman by the name of Mrs.Shirley Crook. They broke into her home and the noise startled her making her get up to see who was in the house. Simmons, who has recently been involved in an accident with her recognized her face. Simmons became upset and scared. The three young men left, but came back later to murder her. The three men tied her up, took Crook to a bridge and threw her off it. They went on to tell people about it; boasting about the crime they had just committed. Christopher Simmons had the idea for his friends to come along because they thought
Sante Kimes background is filled with a lot of intrigue. Much of her past is skewed with stories woven with pathological lies, hard to discern from the real truth. One of Sante’s claims is that her mother was an Oklahoman prostitute driven to Los Angeles by the Dust Bowl, and so Sante ran amok in the streets of L.A. However, court documentation and “close acquaintance” corroboration point her to being “Sandra Louise Singhrs” from Oklahoma City, hailing from a respectable family who was fed up with her “wild child” antics (shoplifting, petty theft). She was adopted by a family from Carson City, Nevada, and she went to high school there.
It is a mystery thriller film, directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The movie is written by John Michael Hayes and the stars in the film are James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr. The release date was September 1, 1954. Music by Franz Waxman and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The setting is in an urban apartment complex where there
Finding One’s Identity The novel, If I Ever Get Out Of Here, by Eric Gansworth, is centered on a young Indian boy, Lewis, who lives in hard conditions. Lewis is surrounded by students at school that have much more than him. Throughout the novel he struggles with his own identity. Who is he and who does he want to be? Often times, throughout the reading, I myself asking the same questions.
The scenes of his death involved the two boys, LMW and Corey Davis, playing unsupervised near a dangerous river due to the unaffordable expenses of childcare and proper supervision.
Stand by me The movie Stand by me is based on the book named The Body, written by Stephen King. It’s the summer 1959 and a group of 12 year old friends Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern search for a missing body of a child in the woods. Along they learn about themselves, the true meaning of friendship and that they need to stand up for what’s right. The movie was made 1986 and Rob Reiner directed the movie who is also known for is acting for example, The princess bridge, The wolf on Wall street and All in the family.
1. Introduction In the present essay, I will refute the standard argument of multiple realization against the identity theory of mind. The currently predominant view in philosophy of mind is that mental states are multiply realized by distinct physical states; this is the first premise of the standard argument. The second premise states that multiple realization is inconsistent with the identity theory.
Simmons started moving from place to place beginning in late 1981 with his wife and seven children. He was being investigated by the DHS “for allegations that he had fathered a child with his seventeen year old daughter.” Simmons finally settled down in Pope County. He quit many jobs, the last being at Sinclair Mini Mart on December 18, 1987. On December 22, he shot his wife and son. On the same day, Simmons strangled and held his four daughters and son underwater until they died. Four days later, on December 26, he shot his son, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, and daughter. Simmons also drowned one of his grandsons, strangled the other grandson, and strangled his granddaughter, which is also his daughter. On December 28, he shot two other people who were not relatives. Before he surrendered to Russellville police, he stated on a phone call, “ It’s all over now. I’ve gotten everybody who wanted to hurt me”.
If you like drama, romance, and suspense then “A Beautiful Mind” is the move for you. A Beautiful Mind is a tale of a man by the name of John Forbes Nash Jr., who is lost in a world of fancies, not beginning able to distinguish reality from actuality. The film started in the late 1940’s in the conference room on the campus of Princeton University where John started as graduate student studying mathematics. He was a persistent and determined young man who always stayed focus on his goal. He never allow peer pressure to control his perspectives on live because he believed that he was in school only to be successful at his craft (math). As the film proceed the author introduced another character by the name of Charles Herman whom I assumed to
Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None is considered a masterpiece. It is her best-selling novel and had sold more than 100 million copies since it was published in 1939. Our culture was likewise highly impacted by the book and it has been adapted into a play, and a video game, and 25 different movies/tv shows. This locked-door mystery has ten strangers lured to an unknown island by a mysterious individual and, one-by-one, murdered off according to a nursery rhyme. Created in 1945, the first movie was adapted by René Clair and quickly grew popular worldwide. Starring Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, and June Duprez, who all did an exquisite job producing Agatha Christie's classic all over again. While René Clair made significant changes to the movie, his changes successfully stayed true to the book.
Identify the movie by stating its title, the year it was released, the name of the director, where the story is set, and the time period in which the story takes place.
beliefs. Sober uses the example of lightning. He points out that according to the Greeks,
Identity refers to structured sense of self, which manipulates itself in threads of life (Burr, 2015). Figure 1 of Tūrangawaewae shows individuals identity can be classified under our age, our gender (male or female), the values and beliefs we share (religious or non- religious), the experiences ( good or bad), the people we surround ourselves with (friends and family), also not limited to, from our genetic inheritance (ancestors or parents). However, identity threads are not pre inherited but are pre-constructed idea influenced by social experiences (Kahu, 2015). I am a woman, 21 years of age, Christian by faith, Fijian Indian by ethnicity. I use mind set of goals to convey through my identity. For example, excelling
In Amin Maalouf’s book “In the Name of Identity” Maalouf emphasizes that we should not judge people on one singular identity. He argues that, “Identity can’t be compartmentalized. You can’t divide it up into halves or thirds or any other separate segments. I haven’t got several identities: I’ve got just one, made up of many components in mixture that is unique to me, just as other people’s identity is unique to them as individuals.” The essence of Maalouf’s argument is that one should not define another based solely on a singular component of their identity but rather their identity as a whole.