"It'll be just like in the movies. Pretending to be somebody else.": Identity (de)Construction in Film

Identity in films is a broad category. Many characters should change or develop throughout the narrative, creating a sense of that person’s identity. This list, if including all these cases, would be extremely long and unspecific, and I already have plenty of those lists made.

The films picked for this list are ones in which I feel the idea of identity is one of the most crucial aspects. I also picked films that include strange cases of identity (for example, after watching the film is there an idea that two characters are really one, or that Character A turns out to really be Character B).

I’m also including...