Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
3/4
A Reflection of Self
Chris Kavan - wrote on 09/07/2014
Simon is a nobody stuck in a drab, bureaucratic world where everyone seems to be a faceless drones and suicides are prevalent. His only outlet is pining over Hannah, a woman who works in the same building and lives across the street in another apartment, which he views through a telescope. He watches her, but cannot reach out to her - the closest he can get is gathering up pieces of paper she draws on and then throws away.
Everything changes with the arrival of a fresh, new talent to the company - a man who looks exactly like Simon, but is the opposite of him: charismatic, seductive, confident - and Simon slowly watches at this doppelganger takes over his life, from taking credit for his work to going after the women in his life. Eventually he cracks.
The Double is based off a …
Rating of
2.5/4
"The Double" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 04/11/2014
A worker drone for a stiflingly bureaucratic corporation is astonished to find that a new employee is the spitting image of himself but with the drive and self-confidence to achieve all the goals he seems unable to himself. Richard Ayoade's follow up to the critically acclaimed Submarine is an adaptation of Dostoevsky's novella and is a strange fish indeed. The talent involved may attract an audience expecting knockabout comedy in a similar vein to their TV projects but The Double is more a kind of dark grey tragi-comedy that reminded me a lot stylistically of Terry Gilliam's Brazil. It's not as surreal or outrageous as the ex-Python's dystopian fantasy, being a far more po-faced and gnawingly angst-ridden affair and it has shades of both Fight Club and some of David Lynch's projects in …
