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Overall Rank: 7482

Average Rating: 2.6/4

# of Ratings: 25

Theatrical Release Date: 05/09/2014

Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 08/26/2014

Language: English

Genre: Comedy, Drama

MPAA Rating: R

Director: Richard Ayoade

Actors: Mia Wasikowska, Jesse Eisenberg, Wallace Shawn, Yasmin Paige, Noah Taylor, Cathy Moriarty

Plot: Simon finds life passing him by - timid, overlooked, ignored, scorned - and he feels like he has no power to change things. Then James arrives at his workplace - and he finds himself looking at mirror image except for one thing - James is everything he is not - confident, charismatic and noticed - and he finds his life slipping away as James takes over everything he has. -- Chris Kavan

Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 06/24/2019

"The Double" is most peculiar film that explores some really interesting ideas.

Unknown - wrote on 09/07/2014

'The Double' is one of those films not bound by genre, tropes, or anything that can be considered ordinary. On the surface, it is a fast-moving piece about the dangers of mistaken identity. The plot is non-stop in delivery. There's much odd humor, striking dream like visuals, an insidious dark quality, and a touch of the heartfelt. Everything coincides seemlessly in an almost free-flowing, yet contained, narrative. Every scene entertains in unpredictable fashion. Ultimately, the film is about the thoughts and emotions we keep inside and never act on. The idea of finding your identity in a place where you feel alone. The ending is the right kind of perplexing that is open to interpretation.

Chris Kavan
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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 …

Yojimbo
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"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 …