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Many films have multiple personality themes. In the last decade is perhaps the most memorable for me is the movie Fight Club, played by Edward Norton and Brad Pitt, tells of an insomniac sufferer who eventually has a condition where his personality is divided into two. But that's just a case where a person has two personalities, then what if in one body has a lot of personality, even up to more than twenty personalities? That's what's in M Night Shyamalan's latest movie 'Split'.
The film opens with the kidnapping of three teenage girls by an unidentified man. The three teenagers were locked up in the basement, but the confusion of the man who kidnapped him often turned into a strange outfit. Every time he changed his clothes, his behavior changed, as if he was not the same person.
Apparently the man is suffering from mental disorders, which forced him to change because in it there are 23 kinds of personality. Whether this person is good or not, and what his motivation to kidnap the teenage girl, that is the question presented in the movie Split. This man has confessed to a psychiatrist that he has 23 personalities, yet again a truly barbaric personality is revealed. Do all these personalities really exist, or are they just human inventions?
James McAvoy who came here seems to have an increasingly honed role. Act now is not just a cool guy actor as shown in the X-Men or Wanted film franchise, some of the movies he's playing lately look increasingly challenging. Like the thriller genre titled Trance in 2013, or also when he became a mad scientist in the movie Victor Frankenstein in 2015. McAvoy has really turned into a character player player to be reckoned with. And his role in the movie Split this time is really very stunning.
Although not the personality Kevin pioneered Kevin, but at least there are 4 most prominent characters that he played and really reached the totality. Dennis's role with obsessive-compulsive disorder, Patricia is a cold-hearted woman, Hedwig a 9-year-old boy, to a rather wooden Barry and fond of fashion designer, playing very well by McAvoy. Even so, he plays every character, the audience can feel that each personality character is very different from each other. Especially the character for Hedwig, is a tired and tall, tall, yet tall, yet tall curiosity boy.
Opponents play McAvoy here is a young teenage actress, Anya Taylor-Joy who plays Casey. Casey has an anti-social character with a dark past, yet clever and clever use of circumstances to save himself.
Setting more dwellings in the basement, reminiscent of Cloverfield 10. But at least there is an outdoor scene, where Kevin visits his psychiatrist's consultant, Dr. Fletcher (Betty Buckley). Or when Casey flashbacks to his childhood as he hunts deer with his father. This is not good to make the audience feel embarrassed, especially for the audience who have a narrow and dark phobia.
What is unique in this movie is also of course because the perspective of the story is not only taken from the protagonist, which is actually here is Casey. Because the development of the story is actually the antagonist of Kevin. What caused Kevin to become a psychopath with various personalities, and what his motivation to kidnap Casey and his comrades, made the audience curious and felt the horror throughout the film.
Overall, this movie is really exciting and curious. Not only that acting actors and actresses who also managed to bring the audience feel the tension is quite thrilling. And this is also the hallmark of M Night Shyamalan, which includes a stronger 'fictive' element in the end, an 'unreasonable' scene that makes the film more interesting or vice versa, depending on audience consideration. Will the audience prefer a more realistic or slightly hyperbolic. What is clear until the end of the film, the story presented remains unpredictable and quite unexpected.
extra drama, into an exciting package offered in Split movie. Thriller is presented not depleted psychological thriller, but thriller really tense with the chase scene that started enough to spur the audience adrenaline. Overall, this movie really spends the audience psychologically and will certainly leave a satisfying impression after coming home from the cinema.
But, again that might be a consideration, ie the end of the movie story rather 'hanging'. Although there is also a little blend in the end with the characters in other Shyamalan movies, because there is the emergence of Mr. Glass and David Dunn from the movie Unbreakable. Split film itself seems deliberately done as a spin off from the movie Unbreakable, which seems then worked on in a sequel that carries the character of Kevin with Mr. Glass and David Dunn.
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I saw the movie not so long ago. It's one of these films which intrigue me and which I would back and can watch all over again. McAvoy is superb in Kevin and others roles, he should definitely get an Oscar nomination.
How in reality in our lives, maybe there are also people more than one personality.