Who Am I? (1998)
Directed by Jackie Chan
A group of covert CIA operatives trailing a potential new energy source are double-crossed by corrupt agent Morgan, who causes a helicopter crash in remote South Africa. The sole survivor, suffering severe amnesia, is nursed to recovery by a kindly native tribe who call him "Whoami" after the question he keeps asking. With the help of a mysterious reporter Christine, Whoami pieces together his past and tracks the turncoat agent and his criminal cohorts.
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This story — co-written by original Blade Runner screenwriter Hampton Fancher and Michael Green — is a soul-searching "Who am I?" journey, but the film's tensions are more akin to a mechanistic puzzle than an emotional web.
Spike, let’s face it, invented the black superhero origin story with MALCOLM X, a film that tells us how Malcolm Little discovered the answer to the question, “Who am I?” Lee’s film concludes with schoolchildren declaring one after another, resolutely, “I AM MALCOLM X.”
The Oliver Stone who put Charlie Sheen on the terrace of a New York City apartment and had him ask "Who am I?" to the dawn.
More often, it’s a preamble to the big show: think, for instance, of Jules’s unloading Ezekiel 25:17 before he unloads his clip in Pulp Fiction ; Robert De Niro cutting short Bridget Fonda’s mocking prattle with an abrupt gunshot in Jackie Brown ; the long, aimless arias of girl talk before the action set pieces of Death Proof , or the “Who Am I?” drinking game that precedes the Mexican standoff in the tavern basement in Inglourious Basterds .
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And the Oedipal detective story that forms the centre of the tale ("Who am I?") is so ripe for examination that it may flower in time to be as debated and revered a fantasy as Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (which likewise features the murder of The Father prior to a kind of manhood and subsequent mate choice).