Undoubtedly, films about a split personality always carry an imprint of some dark matter, which is deep in the mind of a person and most of them can not be attributed to "light dessert" cinema. Almost all of them contain a multilevel overtones that require analysis of the state of mind of their heroes and often, the viewer involuntarily begins to conduct associations between his own worldview and the reality into which the characters of history are immersed, the witness of which he becomes.
List of the best films
The films about the split personality, listed below, are rightly considered to be among the most worthy in their genre and their viewing can deliver a truly great delight to fans of the psychological component in filmmaking.
- "Identification" . Definitely one of the best films about the split personality, created over the last 10-15 years. Escaping from the weather, ten travelers find shelter in an old hotel, not even suspecting that they have a real nightmare in their walls. One by one, they begin to die and calculate the murderer hiding among them and suffering a multiple split of personality is almost impossible.
- "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is a classic of the genre. A story about a doctor studying the dual nature of the human psyche and creating a potion that can "awaken to life" his second, darker "I". The age-old struggle between good and evil here is conducted in the depths of the soul of the protagonist, condemning him to inevitable agony. It looks pretty exciting.
- "Dream House" deservedly takes one of the most honorable places among the best films about the split personality and tells how a wealthy publisher and his family move to live in a quiet and unremarkable town. But this he looks only at first glance. A neighbor informs new settlers that the house in which they settled has a bad reputation, it was committed murder, and the criminal has not yet been caught. The film has everything: both the classic elements of the detective and mysticism and the deep subtext of the psychological thriller.
- Fight Club . Already only one actor's tandem in the person of Brad Pitt and Edward Norton could guarantee the success of the picture, but the story itself, in which both base human instincts and the perverted philosophy of one of the main characters were intertwined, and the search for the meaning of existence, definitely takes the leading position in annals of his genre. The thought of cleansing cruelty is not new, and it's easy enough to enter this labyrinth, it's much more difficult to try to find out from there.
- "Education of Cain . " One of the most interesting films about the split personality. The originality of the plot is that a psychiatrist, who conducts experiments on his patients and even on his own son, suffers from schizophrenia . As a result of unusual sessions, he manages to achieve a multiple split of personality from a successor of his kind and, as it turns out, an adherent of his father's ideas.
- "Refuge" . A film in which mysticism and the clinical mystery of the split personality of the demonic preacher, which the psychiatrist Kara Jessup is trying to unravel, is mixed. The alter ego of her patient abducts the souls of the dead, in order to protect the unbelievers and the whole familiar world of Kara, collapses like a house of cards. Will she be able to protect her family and defeat evil? There is obviously no clear answer to this question.
- "I, again I and Irene . " Funny
a comedy about how in a patrol policeman played by Jim Carrey, two people really get along: Charlie is soft, kind and always ready to help his neighbor, and Hank is a tough and aggressive type that comes into being in those moments when his bright antipode someone threatens or attempts to exert pressure. Both of them are in love with Irene, brilliantly played by Renee Zellweger. But which of them will she choose?
In the modern cinema of films about the split personality created a lot and choose really there is something. To see whether a bloody thriller is difficult from a psychological point of view or to enjoy an easy comedy with an unpredictable plot twist is up to you.