Next, with an increase in vulgarity, we see the abusive husband towards his wife, controlling aspect of slavery. In somewhat of a comical sense some children feel that their parents rein over them and own them rather than love them. In each of these scenarios we can say that at least one half of the party feels owned or has the ownership over another. This idea was explored in the movie Being John Malkovich, in which the main character, played by John Cusaq, finds a portal to the revered actor John Malkovich. By entering this portal a person can see life through John Malkovichs eyes for 15 minutes at a time. As time passed John Cusaq's character learned how to control and obtain an absolute on Malkovich's body enabling him to remain in it as long as wanted, using him in a puppet like sense. Cusaq was able to marry the women he desired, have the career he desired, have the money he desired, the fame he desired, and a chance to be someone else, something he really desired, all because he stole someone else's identity. .
Though the dilemma of essentially being John Malkovich to Malkovich and Cusaq is fictional, it can be compared to real occurrences of Identity Theft. The December 17, 1999 news release by John J. Farmer, Jr., Attorney General stated, "In this age of easy access to personal identification information, identity theft is a serious offense that poses a threat of integrity of commercial activity and governmental functions."" This only leaves people to believe that they are simply pawns to a game of reality verses plastic. In the sense that reality is who we are, assuming we even know that, and the plastic version is what is stolen.
The plastic version of ourselves only brings about another question; are we just pieces of paper or plastic? In Langston Hughes Theme for English B he discusses his identity, " I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this college on the hill above Harlem.