Someone tell me if this movie idea is X-ist.

It's about a person slowly going insane as it forgets key parts of its external identity, including gender, race, sexuality, and other things. It starts off being played by a relatively regular black man, but over the course of the movie it's sometimes portrayed by an extremely similar looking white man in some scenes. This happens in other ways too. In some scenes it's played by similar looking trans-men and trans-women, one of each for as many races as I can find good actors who look similar to original. Sometimes the actors are in colorface to look like other races. There'll be a sex scene where its partner changes its apparent sex and gender with every shot. In the last half hour the same idea from the sex scene comes back, with the protagonist changing to a different actor in different makeup (and sometimes with no makeup at all) with every new camera angle. This is taken to even greater extremes when the protagonist sometimes isn't even human, but an animal, mythological being, or even an inanimate object.

However, even while the what of the protagonist's identity is constantly in question, the who remains the same. It always likes the same kind of music and TV, for instance. At end, when its body is flashing between black/white/man/woman/trans/cis in a padded room, it's still humming the same song that was briefly heard as its ringtone near the beginning of the movie.

Good idea, yes/no?

 

No, it isn't X-ist. Although I suggest not doing blackface or anything of the such. Mostly because it'd be more practical to just have different actors but also because it could be misconstrued as racism even if it isn't intended as such. The actors don't even have to look similar in my opinion. The person is losing touch with what makes up their identity so it'd make more sense for them to perceive themselves as something radically different than their original self. The only constant could be their clothes. Whether they be Asian, Black, male, female, cis, or trans, they could continue to be wearing their signature outfit or be carrying something that's important to them.

Interesting idea though. I like it. Something about it strikes me as familiar though but I can't put my finger on it.

 

You're thinking of that film about Bob Dylan, where he's played by several people including a woman.