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This 5 page report discusses two 20th century movies that offered their audiences some of the most graphic and clear-cut examples of male identity problems/issues/conflicts -- Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game (1992) and Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960). Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Crying Game (1992) and Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho (1960). In each, the audience experiences a story in which the main character is as confused as the audience itself but the audience
doesnt realize that until the storyline of the movie has moved past the proverbial point-of-no-return. Despite the fact that the movies were produced more than thirty years apart from one
another, both address male identity issues that numerous psychoanalysts would be likely to tie directly toward a confusion of the main characters sense of himself as a sexual being. The
end result is one in which the character and the audience is surprised, shocked, horrified, and repelled by the character but cannot help but pity him. The Story of
Fergus Stephen Rea plays Fergus (and was nominated for an Academy Award for the portrayal), a somewhat reluctant Irish Republican Army "soldier" and the main character of "The Crying Game."
He and his fellow terrorists kidnap Jody, a British soldier, played by Forest Whitaker, and Fergus and Jody become an unlikely pair of friends. The kidnapping goes very wrong and
Jody is killed. Fergus must go even more deeply underground to escape and eventually surfaces in London as "Jimmy" where he seeks out Dil, Jodys girlfriend. Ironically, painfully, and even
humorously, Dil is actually a man (Hooper 43). It is worth noting that the word "auteur" (a film director with a distinctive personal style) is truly appropriate
for the Irish moviemaker, writer, and director Neil Jordan who created The Crying Game. He clearly does not believe in simple or superficial stories as the framework for his movies
(Mona Lisa, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire, In Dreams, and most recently, The Good Thief) and The Crying Game is certainly no exception. However, The Crying Game does serve
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