As IMDb celebrates its 30th birthday, we have six shows to get you ready for those pivotal years of your life ... your 30s. Mia Wasikowska is elfin but a little insipid to convince as the story’s central romantic lynchpin.

A stoner - who is in fact a government agent - is marked as a liability and targeted for extermination. The premise seems interesting, but the way it was presented is what didn't work for me. Synopsis Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg) is a young Canadian man living in London, England who exits a tube train, gets his briefcase caught in the door and loses it because the handle breaks off and the train rushes off. Add the first question. Simon works in an oppressive office, for a dismissive boss (Wallace Shawn, in full contemptuous sputtering mode). I came up with an idea of what I think could be going on. Read his answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here.

If you were Russia and you were trying to sneak a bunch of agents into the United States, would you assemble them in one handy group and try to sneak them past the Border Patrol? Your opinion of The Double may be swayed by whether you view it as an insightful commentary on existentialism, a successful adaptation of the novella, or a meaningful work of drama.
James is so outgoing he has no trouble getting his boss's attention and seducing women.

This irks Simon, but being an overly meek fellow to begin with he doesn’t quite know how to handle his annoyance.

Ben Geary has his doubts.
I suppose in theory there isn’t a whole lot of difference between "forced-eclectic" and "self-conscious art film," only here Ayoade has found a way to make it work, and in the end, that’s all that counts. To Simons horror, James slowly starts taking over his life.

Jon, a young wanna-be musician, discovers he's bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank. Decades later, Shepherdson believes that Cassius has been taken out of the game. Be the first to contribute! The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. Ayoade, a comedic sensation in his native Britain, here applies his obvious intelligence and film-style-absorbing qualities to a better purpose than he did in his directorial feature debut, 2010’s teen-angst chronicle "Submarine," which I described at the time as "forced-eclectic." I tried to answer a few of the questions people might have. The Double was a movie that definitely stayed in my mind. The Double is Richard Ayoade's follow up to Submarine, and it feels heavily influenced by other works, especially from directors like David Lynch and Terry Gilliam. James is both Simons exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and good with women. for intense sequences of action and violence, some disturbing images and language, Highlights from Ebert Symposium on Future of Movie Industry, Ebert Symposium 2020: Part 2 Streaming Today, October 22nd, 2020, Everlasting Arms: The Sustained Power of The Night of the Hunter. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. Plot Keywords A U.S.

Simon always tries to please those around him and is very submissive despite everyone's indifference towards him. Which I suppose qualifies "The Double" as something of a miracle. The method of murder reveals the trademark of Cassius, the CIA's code name for a Russian assassin. He always looks for an excuse to visit her at the printing room, but he never finds the courage to ask her out.

It helps that the world they create to house this dark, philosophical tale is sufficiently detached from reality. Was this review helpful to you? ), her Hannah is head-spinningly schizoid, and Wasikowska seems to have this almost supernatural ability to change the bone structure of her face at will, so when she wants to go for a "blank" affect, boy can she make that happen. Directed by Michael Brandt.

The Double was a movie that definitely stayed in my mind. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Synopsis submission guide. A corrupt, junkie cop with bipolar disorder attempts to manipulate his way through a promotion in order to win back his wife and daughter while also fighting his own inner demons.

There is a lot of dark humor involved and it also has a philosophical undertone. This FAQ is empty. The two men are asked by Highland to work together on the case. With Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn, Noah Taylor. The Connected Universe (2016) film review, Sydney Film Festival: Rip Tide (2017) film review. The Amazing Catfish (Los insolitos peces gato)(2013). Taglines

Ayoade created such a unique dystopian and bleak world that it made me feel dull and alienated. So the movie leads us to assume the big case involves entirely unseen characters.

Under ordinary circumstances the very idea of an overtly self-conscious art film is likely one to make even the most dyed-in-the-wool cinephile want to curl up in a fetal position in a corner for, say, the average length of a self-conscious art film. She is also kind of a lonely and strange girl herself, and Simon often finds himself watching her through a telescope from his apartment. Back when he was an active operative, Paul Shepherdson (Gere) devoted his every waking minute to capturing "Cassius" -- an elusive Soviet hit-man with a spectral reputation. A vaguely satirical take on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s dense novella The Double, Ayoade’s film of the same name delights in waving its quirky existential bits in your face whilst recounting the story of a socially inept office clerk, and the world-upturning fallout he experiences after encountering his exact double. Parents Guide.