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A Blog discussing the Interpretation of feature films. Menu Carl Jung talks about identity as a construct, of certain archetypes, suggesting we each have certain archetypes in society, or masks. What this means is that we take on certain roles in certain situations. One example of this might be a lecturer who while teaching is taking on the archetypal role of lecturer, however outside of the clas*room, the lecturer will become a different archetype such as friend or parent. On another note we also decide how we present ourselves in society, for example we chose how we dress, what kind of make up we wear,what music we listen to and what type of persona we chose to show, this is us constructing our identity. With the use of social networking this furthers the ability to shape Identity, we chose what goes on our profiles and what we post on sites like face-book or twitter. There are a number of different areas within Identification. Lacan describes a Mirror phase describing how an infant forms it’s ego by recognising itself in the mirror for the first time. Murray smith discusses Character identification in terms of Alignment and Allegiance. I intend to discuss these elements within the film Black Swan (Darren Aranofsky 2010). Black Swan is a film that follows a character called Nina who is a Ballerina, and dreams of dancing swan lake, when she finally gets the The film focuses heavily on the theme of loss of innocence something a lot of viewers can relate to, most people will remember the awkward transition from child to ad*lt and identify with Nina through this. In the beginning of the film Nina’s mother is very controlling and oppressive towards Nina treating her like a little gi*l, tucking her in at night, even going as far as to sleep in Nina’s room with her. Nina’s bedroom resembles that of a child’s bedroom it is pink and we see that Nina still owns dolls from her childhood. Nina in Spanish translated is ‘Little gi*l’ further adding to themes of innocence. Nina wears pink, a colour as*ociated with innocence in a lot of scenes