Identity

Identity at first sight appears to be a movie about ten travelers who are caught in a savage rainstorm and are forced to seek refuge at a strange desert motel. The movie soon develops into a thriller as the audience learns that there is a killer among the group and one by one, they are murdered. As the storm rages on and the dead begin to outnumber the living, and one thing becomes clear: “Each of them was drawn to the motel, not by accident or circumstance, but by forces beyond imagination, forces that promise anyone who survives a mind-bending and terrifying destiny.”

Underneath all this, the audience discovers that the entire motel scenario was a creation in the mind of Malcolm Rivers, a mental patient diagnosed with Split/Multiple Personality Disorder. Malcolm Rivers is on trial for murders he committed in the past. The d

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Timmy may have been present when he told Malcolm. It appears, however, reasonable that Timmy was in control of Malcolm during his murders as he was at the end of the movie when he killed Dr. Malcolm Rivers committed killings when he was not apparently sane. If it was his body that murdered those people and not his mind, he would be innocent: As the doctor says, “there were 10 personalities in Malcolm’s head.

For some reason, Timmy becomes aware that the others at the motel were only identities and he had to kill them off in order for himself to survive. There are many takes and theories on the actually true identity of Malcolm Rivers, but the one seems most plausible to me personally is Timmy York. The movie also explores the death penalty as applied to a mental patient. We discover that each identity is slowly killed off to reveal Malcolm’s true identity. Timmy is the last “surviving” identity in Malcolm’s body. Nevertheless, we do not know who Malcolm Rivers “was” when he murdered all those people in the past. Thus, Timmy planned and calculated his moves to systematically kill of the others. One reason for this may be the doctor’s therapy, which helps to bring together the different identities into one motel.

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