SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary Richard Linklater's latest film Hit Man cleverly incorporates the Freudian psychological concepts of human identity with id, ego, and superego. The new Glen Powell film features the Top Gun: Maverick breakout star in his most versatile role yet, playing a loner college professor who moonlights as an assassin for his local police department.
How The Id, Ego & Superego Work & Relate To Each Other In Psychology Explained The three combine to form a conceptualization of human identity The superego informs and conditions the ego, which governs the unfiltered id, and the three provinces combine to embody a conceptualized version of the self.
Related All 10 Hitman & Assassin Movies Referenced In Glen Powell’s Hit Man Glen Powell and Richard Linklater's latest comedy movie Hit Man shows several clips of other classic hitman movies and television series. Gary's transformation into Ron allows some of Gary's repressed inhibitions of the id to rise to the surface of his ego, which in turn creates a different relationship with his sense of moral and societal conditions and alters the framework of his superego. Because Gary is letting loose under the guise of Ron, his formerly strict and absolute sense of morality and societal duty are altered, especially since he's masquerading as a contract killer.