Several people, due to a series of different but subtly interconnected circumstances, find themselves having to spend the night in a motel because of a violent storm that has made all the roads impassable.
There are ten in total: a woman seriously injured after an accident, her husband, their son, an actress with her driver, the motel owner, a police officer with a criminal in custody, and two young newlyweds.
Little by little, during the night, they will all begin to be killed, one after the other...
Identity It is an excellent thriller, structured like a crossword puzzle, with different clues that, while appearing completely unrelated, are in fact closely connected.
The basic ideas are quite original, although the setting is taken from Christie's novel. Ten Little Indians.
The film draws on several genres: it starts as a legal thriller and then continues as a slasher film with some hints of the paranormal in the finale.
However, the ending explains the true interpretation of the film, which makes it much more similar to Noises and darkness by Brad Anderson.
The conclusion is more contrived than forced, but this does not mean it lacks narrative coherence.
During the narrative development of the film, several clues are revealed about the identity of the murderer, leading the viewer to come up with various solutions. However, none of these are entirely satisfactory, as they are unable to explain all the mysteries of the film.
Only the last twenty minutes are “liberating,” but equally agitated, definitively overturning most of the theories constructed up to that point.
The human mind is not always consistent. Often everything appears or disappears like an explosion or like an image reflected in a mirror: all symbols that the film gives us.
On a symbolic level, in fact, the thriller does not disappoint at all.
The storm surrounding the motel is the killer's limit, who cannot exceed the limits of himself, his life, his mind, his memories, his being and non-being.
At most, it can take on different forms, but they all have the same common denominator.
Citrus plants themselves are a short-lived fantasy (there is an almost certainly unintentional reference to the series One Piece).
People start dying, and the pages of the mind are torn out.
The countdown is on, even with the passing years.
Good overall performance, as well as photography.
Nice try.
Review by Zick
