Identity & Rebellion

Posted on by Tasha Rhone

Three Films. Three Fractured Selves. One Visual Revolt.

This week’s moodboard is stitched from stolen identities, sealed rooms and silent defiance. Brick, The Talented Mr Ripley and Gattaca each offer a lens into characters who refuse to be defined by their circumstances. Their rebellion isn’t loud – it’s coded, cinematic and deeply personal.

This week we have curated a visual archive of transformation; mirrors, bio-metrics, architectural claustrophobia and sunlit deception. Identity becomes a costume. Rebellion becomes a mood.

Brick (2025)

  • Visual Mood: matte brick walls, surveillance shadows, emotional static.
  • Identity Cue: Trapped in grief, Tim and Liv rebel by unraveling the architecture around them. The building becomes a metaphor for memory, control and the limits of the self.

When escape seems impossible, rebellion turns inward

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

  • Visual Mood: Coastal decadence, jazz club chiaroscuro, mirror motifs.
  • Identity Cue: Tom Ripley’s rebellion is aesthetic. He steals not just a lie, but a look. His transformation is a masterclass in visual deceit.

Identity isn’t fixed, it’s forged

Gattaca (1997)

  • Visual Mood: Sterile symmetry, DNA-coded minimalism, celestial ambition.
  • Identity Cue: Vincent Freeman rebels against genetic determinism with precision and poise. His mood is one of quiet resistance and cosmic longing.

To escape the system you have to become something it can’t predict

Moodboard Threads

  • Mirrors and doubles – identity as reflection and distortion.
  • Confinement vs escape – rooms, walls, thresholds.
  • Costume as rebellion – sunglasses, suits, forged documents.
  • Colour psychology – black for control, blue for longing, gold for envy.

This week’s moodboard is a study in cinematic camouflage. These characters rebel by becoming someone else – someone the system didn’t see coming. Whether through architecture, genetics or social masquerade, their defiance is visual, emotional and unforgettable.

This week let’s channel transformation, tension and the quiet revolt of becoming.

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