Bailiff And Heavenly Creatures Film Analysis

Both Sansho the Bailiff and Heavenly Creatures possess characters with unsteady names that advocate a vulnerable state of their identity. These characters are shaped by daunting events that happened in their past. Furthermore, these events created trauma placing each character into their reality faced within the films. Their identities left behind is for a purpose. Characters in Sansho the Baliff shifting names represent perseverance over all odds while still being a reminder of the future person they wish to be. The two main characters in Heavenly Creatures, create fantasies eventually using these made up names in real life. This represents their confusion between reality and fantasy and the desire to become someone else. The change in names
from each character in Sanahso the Bailiff and Heavenly Creatures create a desertion from their trauma, building an existence that they seek to become one day.