The Passenger Movie Analysis

“The passenger” follows a day in the life of a man named David Locke, who is a journalist that has been sent to cover an interview in Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. He then discovers the body of a strange man who happens to look like him. Locke decides to steal that guy’s identity and be him. However, he finds out that the man was an arm dealer after being in dangerous situations. He meets a young student only referred to as The Girl in the movie, that travels with him.
The movie begins with Locke in an African village surrounded by desert. He hires a boy to lead him out to desert, and then another man leads him elsewhere and abandons him. In that scene, the camera was slowly moving showing us the desert that surrounded him. The light showed true colors of dunes, and the shots were taken from distance in a way that showed emptiness that surrounded him.
The hotel where Locke comes back to was quite empty. There is a worker, and another resident, a man named Robertson. Locke walks into Robertson’s room and finds him dead. Without planning, he switches identities with Robertson. In that scene, while Locke was swapping their …show more content…
The new Robertson meanwhile decides to go meet certain appointments that the old Robertson had made, and when he goes, he meets two men that were wearing suits and truly looked like criminals. Locke then discovers he is a gun dealer. Lock’s character is well played. The look on his face showed how surprised he was when he discovered the truth about his new chosen persona. He manages to stay calm through that scene. We could see him sweating and stumbling over his words. Even though he did not know what was being discussed at first, he played along with it. His behavior tells us that he is panicking inside. The two men’s behavior also tells us who they are in this