History Film / SelfLess

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Albright, who considers shedding to be worth its incredibly unethical nature, since it means ensuring that influential and important people are able to live longer and contribute to the world.]]

* DisappearedDad: Damien was something of this to his daughter when she was little growing up, and became worse in later years. He regrets this, and in the end somewhat makes up for it being giving her a letter stating how much she meant to him.

* FalseFriend: [[spoiler:Anton, who actually is working for Albright. Subverted with Martin.]]

** Martin's son died at some point prior to the start of the movie. [[spoiler:He used shedding to save the boy's life, but then realizes that it was at the cost of ''killing another child''.]]

** [[spoiler:The bodies used for shedding aren't artificially made. They were once living people, with lives of their own, coerced into donating themselves for whatever reason. Also, the pills that stop the seizures after shedding are slowly destroying the original inhabitants of the body, so the new occupant has to choose between living at the cost of killing someone else or letting the original person return while they die.]]

* BlackBestFriend: Anton, who Damien meets in New Orleans. [[spoiler:Subverted when Damien discovers that Anton works for Albright, at which point Anton snaps and just starts trying to kill Damien. Also, it's later revealed that Anton originally was from a Russian prison. He just happened to have been shed into a black body when he's introduced.]]
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Invoked; when [[spoiler:confronted by Damien at the end of the movie]], Albright argues that since he is the only one who knows the formula to prepare the medicine [[spoiler:that prevents Mark's personality from coming back and erasing Damien's]], killing him isn't an option. [[spoiler:Damien [[ShutUpHannibal answers by revealing him he already found the formula of his own]] before killing him.]]

* ChekhovsGun: The flame-spewing gun, [[spoiler:used to shoot through the glass divider and kill Albright.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Madeline and Damien's argument, when [[spoiler:he tells her that he used shedding to move into her husband's body]]. When it's seen from Anna's perspective, it could easily be mistaken for any intense argument between parents, complete with Madeline giving Anna false reassurances that everything's fine and urging her to go play elsewhere while they finish talking.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Albright's]] wife is in a nursing home, suffering from Alzheimer's. Even after undergoing shedding, he still shows up to visit her and bring her her favorite candy. It's shown not long after that he's willing to drop what he's doing and come visit her, if she calls him for help.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Damien eventually stops taking his medicine and lets himself fade away so Mark can come back and be with his family.]]

* IllGirl: Anna, in her backstory. She got better thanks to [[spoiler:her father selling his body to pay for her hospital bills.]]
* IronicEcho: At the start of the movie, Damien offers Claire funding for her organization, causing her to angrily say how he thinks that he can just solve any problem by opening his checkbook. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, Damien meets Claire in his new body, posing as a friend who spoke to her father before his death. He offers her an envelope from her father that has a piece of paper inside and, as she starts to react with disgust and thinks he was still trying to bribe her, says that her father knew he had a tendency to think that he could solve every problem with his checkbook.]]

* RuleOfPerception: While some of it is explained by him wearing new clothes [[spoiler:and having been declared dead]], Madeline still doesn't recognize [[spoiler:her husband's body]] until he turns to face her, despite seeing him from behind and hearing his voice.

* ShowingOffTheNewBody: After being put in the new body, Damien's montage of learning to control it is intercut with a scene of him walking to a mirror and admiring his new appearance.

* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Damien ended up estranged from his daughter, Claire, when he wasn't present in her life as she grew up. He does try to reconcile, but she's more than a little put off by him trying to bond with her by offering her money. [[spoiler:Her reaction to the letter he leaves her at the end of the movie shows that he at least was able to let her know that he loved her.]]

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: When Damien is telling Albright about the visions he has during his seizures, Albright attributes them to being leftover memories from his past life. The Latina woman he saw was probably a woman he used to date. Damien points out that he never said the woman he saw was Latina.

** [[spoiler:The bodies used for shedding aren't artificially made. They were once living people, with lives of their own, coerced into donating themselves or whatever reason. Also, the pills that stop the seizures after shedding are slowly destroying the original inhabitants of the body, so the new occupant has to choose between living at the cost of killing someone else or letting the original person return while they die.]]

%% * WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Albright.]]

* GoldMakesEverythingShiny: Damien's apartment is all gold everywhere. To call it ostentatious would be an understatement.

Self/Less is a 2015 film directed by [[Film/TheCell Tarsem]] [[Film/{{Immortals}} Singh]] and starring Creator/RyanReynolds and Creator/BenKingsley. TwentyMinutesInTheFuture, Damien (Kingsley), an insanely wealthy real estate mogul, is dying from cancer. Following the lead of a business card he's slipped, Damien finds out about a process called "shedding", which will put his mind in an artificially-grown younger body (Reynolds). Afraid of dying, Damien agrees.

* AdultFear: Madeline's daughter is deathly ill, her husband dies, [[spoiler:and then he seems to show up alive, but with a completely different personality. This is when she has to grab her daughter and go on the run, spending a lot of her time terrified that they'll be kidnapped or killed.]] There's also the part at the end where [[spoiler:Damien, who she's grown to trust, coldly walks into a room she and her daughter are locked in and begins shooting people. He turns out to be saving her, but she understandably is terrified for their lives.]]

* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler:The bodies used for shedding aren't artificially made. They were once living people, with lives of their own, coerced into donating themselves or whatever reason. Also, the pills that stop the seizures after shedding are slowly destroying the original inhabitants of the body, so the new occupant has to choose between living at the cost of killing someone else or letting the original person return while they die.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Albright.]]

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: When Damien is telling Albright about the visions he has during his seizures, Albright attributes them to being leftover memories from his past life. The Latino woman he saw was probably a woman he used to date. Damien points out that he never said the woman he saw was Latino.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Invoked; when [[spoiler:confronted by Damien at the end of the movie]], Albright argues that since he is the only one who knows the formula to prepare the medicine [[spoiler:that prevent Mark's personality from coming back and erasing Damien's]], killing him isn't an option. [[spoiler:Damien [[ShutUpHannibal answers by revealing him he already found the formula of his own]] before killing him.]]

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Invoked; when [[spoiler:confronted by Damien at the end of the movie]], Albright argues that since he is the only one who knows the formula to prepare the medicine [[spoiler:that prevent Mark's personality from coming back and erasing Damien's]], killing him isn't an option. [[spoiler:Damien [[ShutUpHannibal by revealing him he already found the formula of his own]] before killing him.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Damien eventually stops taking his medicine and lets himself fade away so Mark can come back and be with his family.]]

* MortonsFork: When Damien realizes [[spoiler:that his taking the pills are all that stand between him living and Mark's personality returning]], he has to choose between [[spoiler:fading away so Madeline and Anna can have Mark back]] or [[spoiler:continuing to live while Mark is lost forever]]. He ultimately [[spoiler:chooses to let Mark return.]]

Self/Less is a 2015 film directed by [[Film/TheCell Tarsem]] [[Film/TheFall Singh]] and starring Creator/RyanReynolds and Creator/BenKingsley. TwentyMinutesInTheFuture, Damien (Kingsley), an insanely wealthy real estate mogul, is dying from cancer. Following the lead of a business card he's slipped, Damien finds out about a process called "shedding", which will put his mind in an artificially-grown younger body (Reynolds). Afraid of dying, Damien agrees.

Self/Less is a 2015 film starring Creator/RyanReynolds and Creator/BenKingsley. TwentyMinutesInTheFuture, Damien (Kingsley), an insanely wealthy real estate mogul, is dying from cancer. Following the lead of a business card he's slipped, Damien finds out about a process called "shedding", which will put his mind in an artificially-grown younger body (Reynolds). Afraid of dying, Damien agrees.

Self/Less is a 2015 film starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kingsley. TwentyMinutesInTheFuture, Damien (Kingsley), an insanely wealthy real estate mogul, is dying from cancer. Following the lead of a business card he's slipped, Damien finds out about a process called "shedding", which will put his mind in an artificially-grown younger body (Ryan Renolds). Afraid of dying, Damien agrees.

Self/Less is a 2015 film starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kingsley. TwentyMinutesInTheFuture, a dying man transfers his mind to a younger body.

* WellIntendedExtremist: [[spoiler:Albright.]]

* ThinkOfThePotential: One of the reasons [[spoiler:Albright pushes forward with shedding, despite the cost, is because he argues that the benefits of saving brilliant minds make it worthwhile.]]

Self/Less is a 2015 film starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kingsley. 20 Minutes in the Future, a dying man transfers his mind to a younger body