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About this video essay:
An exploration of 3 different types of identity crisis, how they are reflected by stories, and how we can deal with them.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
4:11 Type 1: Displacement
7:18 Type 2: Constrictment
10:43 Interlude: A Premature Victory
13:39 Type 3: Overwhelming Freedom
17:23 What to do?

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Media included:
300; 500 Days of Summer; A Beautiful Mind; A Fantastic Woman; A Star is Born; Ad Astra; Arrival; Avatar; Beautiful Boy; Before Midnight; Before Sunrise; Before Sunset; Billy Elliot; Blade Runner; Blade Runner 2049; Bo Burnham’s Inside; Brokeback Mountain; Call Me By Your Name; Cinderella; Cloud Atlas; Crazy Stupid Love; Dances With Wolves; Dead Poets Society; Easy Rider; Eat Pray Love; Eight Grade; Fight Club; Garden State; Ghostbusters After Life; Good Will Hunting; Green Book; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone; Her; Ikiru; Inside Llewyn Davis; It’s a Wonderful Life; Jurassic Park; Jurassic World; Knight of Cups; Last Night in Soho; Lost in Translation; Mid90s; Minari; Moonlight; Mr. Nobody; Noah; October Sky; Office Space; Paterson; Pig; Rebel Without a Cause; Silence; Sorry to Bother You; Sound of Metal; Spencer; Spiderman; Star Wars; Synecdoche, New York; Terminator 2; The Danish Girl; The End of the Tour; The Farewell; The Fountain; The Great Beauty; The Intern; The Last Duel; The New World; The Perks of Being a Wallflower; The Pursuit of Happyness; The Road; The Royal Tenenbaums; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty; The Tree of Life; We Are Your Friends; Where the Wild Things Are; Whiplash

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Music:
Slow Meadow – Tethered to the Earth
Dexter Britain – What is Lost
Dexter Britain – Lost in Light
Jesse Brown – Light With Factor Eight
Jude Cosmo – Fade Into Light

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Additional Music:
Caleb Etheridge – Shooting Star