Execution of Multiple Personality Disorder

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) also known as Multiple Personality Disorder is a severe condition for the patient which there will be two or more distinct identities, or personality states that are present in and alternately take control of an individual. The person may experiences memory loss from the alternate changes from each personality.

Movies can be relate to this disorder are Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Sybil, Fight Club, Psycho and Identity. These movies projected the transition of a harmless person into wild and dangerous. Any execution of the movie portraying DID is fascinating, because any way had use can add on the feel of intense and mystery to the movie, bringing the audience to a different experience.

One of the execution is that actor need to act different significant character themselves to show the drastic change of the person. This is going to test the acting skill of the actor. It is a really psychopathic way for the actor to not focus on 1 character but many within the same time. The audience can easily identify the person with DID and excited to react with the sudden change of the character bringing the twist to the plot.

However, another way bring more mystery to the audience, they will not know the protagonist suffer DID until the end of the movie. Fight Club and Identity is the good example for this kind of execution. We thought the protagonist communicate with various characters in the movie, but in fact they are the same person. Very good twist and surprising for us to watch. The writer need to be carefully write the plot as some hints need to slowly expose out to not lead much confusion in the end of the movie.

Following kind of execution in the short film has inspired few directors to do the similar way at their film. The title of the short film is Inside, directed by Trevor Sands and had won 2 film festivals in 2002. It is about a man with DID on his way to meet a doctor for evaluation. Throughout the short film, we have seen him accompany by many people with different characteristic to meet doctor for evaluation. They are unstable, everyone wanted to speak up until they are confronted by the doctor. In the end of the short film, we realize the doctor is also one of his split personality. This twist captivates us by bringing many characters alive and let the audience to identify each split personality he have, then the hook is at the doctor calming the others also one of his split character.

This execution shows up many characters with different sizes, gender and personalities coming alive accompany the person where ever the person is at. Audience will have a clear image on the person has how many personality and what kind of characteristic. It looks like a group of people stick together and voice up in any different situation.

Wilber Pan's music video is one of the replica example by using the story of Billy with 24 personalities. Splitting aside from the dancing part, the story content is quite similar with the short film shown above. Wilber is heading to meet the doctor bringing along with many characters beside him, later the doctor herself also part of Wilber. Although the content is similar, but overall the MV has brought up a better quality with fast pace of editing and smooth story telling.

Mad Detective directed by Johnie To and Wai Ka-Fai in year 2007, had execute in a way the detective has the supernatural gift seeing a person's "inner personalities," or hidden ghosts. He uses this ability to help the rookie detective to solve a murder case. Throughout the investigation, the detective suspected an officer which has suffer from multiple personality disorder. From the suspected officer, we can see he has a total of 7 personalities which 7 different character surround him to commit crime.

Multiple personality disorder is an interesting theme, it excite our mind to start thinking and follow the story of the movie closely. We hardly predict when the characters will appear and might shock us with any action. It's unpredictable, the thrill and mystery feel of the movie is one of the pleasure for a good movie viewing experience.

Travel to Another Dimension

If we have the ability to travel to another dimension, then we can travel through different spaces to somewhere we wanted to go. However, most people get excited for this ability are the people who wanted to escape their current living situation. People live miserably and hope they can get out from the current situation to a new place. The new place will bring them joy and freedom. Unfortunately, the new place will never meet to their expectation.
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Recently found a short film been shared around, which tells the story of a prisoner found a way to travel to another dimension then he can escape from the prison. Without listening to the advice of the old man, very excited of him just run off from the prison and then get caught again from the current dimension.

This short film is the winner of the BAFTA for short film 2014, entitled Room 8.

The tone of the short film is dark and steady pace. It tells story of the protagonist found hope to escape the prison, but having an unfortunate ending. Giving the feel of goosebumps when you follow the story until the end. Questions are popping out: is this is the way to prison? how was the dimension or space of the room works? will the human size become even smaller after escaping from the original room?

Since, it is a short film, many details can't be told, whereas Room 8 just wanted to tell the consequence of the protagonist life. The matches box shown from the early of the short film had told the answer. We might get curios about the meaning of the shacking matches box, but when the story start to escalate to the end, we realist the hope of the many prisoner had trapped into the matches box.
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The following short film brings another tone to the theme of travelling to another dimension. Although, it is set similar to the Room 8 about the consequence of the prisoner, but this short film is more to action and sci-fi genre. This short film is Portal: No Escape.

A woman wakes up in a room with no memory, found lock in the room like prison until she found a weapon can help her travel around with the portal that had made. It is a good opportunity for her to escape from the prison. In the end, after fighting with the guards, she realize she had already in another prison all the while. There is no way out for her.

A never ending prison for her life was miserable, though she got a little hope for the weapon she found to escape. The short film tells more action genre where machinery and combat are available. The excitement was there when we follow her to escape from the prison, then come a twist that no one able to leave form the prison.
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For the 3rd short film to recommend is entitled Black Hole. The earliest short film watched compared to last 2 short films. Just less than 3 minutes of the film had made me feel pity for the guy. Greed leads to ignorant, and lead him to a sad ending.

An ordinary guy feeling miserably working lately at the office, and suddenly a photocopy machine print out a copy of black hole. He then found out this black hole able him to pass through a wall and get things he wanted. When his greedy thought started to kick in, he went to the safe box and try carry out all the money in it. Desperately of taking out all the money in it, without thinking, all of his body had went in the safe box, then the paper just unattached and left him inside the safe box.

A strong moral value can be learn from the short film, telling about the consequences of being greedy. Without using music but just natural sound has resonate out the daily life of a lot of white collar workers. A great escape for people want to escape their mundane life, and get smack back again to be realistic. This guy was so happy after finding the ability of the black hole, from frustrating emotion to curios and greedy to get away from his original life. Well written for this short film, simple yet it can bring dramatic effect on us.