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Directed by Noah Hawley

What happens when you lose your identity? How would you react if you were no longer the person behind your signature? Director Noah Hawley tells the story of how a random case of identity fraud provides a reluctant hero with a second chance at life.

What happened to Westwood College? Where is its budget? As it is in for it now, as they just had to pay Uncle Sam about $7 million, for violating the Fair Claims Act. Westwood College got the business end of the boot as they had reportedly lied to students about graduation rates, acknowledgement of credits with other universities, and a host of other things. I doubt it's going to mean that students who enrolled there will be getting their personal loans for tuition back. Westwood is a chain of branch colleges, owned by Alta Colleges, Inc. The CEO insists, of course, that they did nothing wrong. It seems clear that Westwood College has some serious credit repair to do.

I've never seen this short film. But if the treatment had been serious, in order to produce intense psychological tension and anxiety in the vicarious viewer, then my following few remarks will be close to the mark.

Losing one's identity is probably worse than suddently going blind, because the recently blinded individual at least knows that he or she is now blind and that is, unfortunately, part of his or her new identity. But at least they know that.

To wake up one morning and very hesitantly look in the mirror and then see nothing but a total stranger either glaring or gazing back at you would indeed be discomfiting at the very least. At worst, it would be nightmarish; to be awake, and have your unconscious mind pouring everything including the kitchen sink out at you.

Mr Diggs.

Come See the Softer Side of Being Vincent.

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too unbelievable.. would a guy whose identity was stolen really just give up so easily, and then tell the theif to take care of his parents? The dude who stole the identity is way too passive. Who apologizes like that right off the bat? Its unrealistic. I dont believe any of the characters, but its a decent effort.