Synopsis
You can’t escape Yourself!
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
2013 Directed by Denis Villeneuve
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Neprijatelj, Priesas, Nepritel, An Enemy, 双面危敌, 心敵, Ворог, KP15: Priešas
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can't believe the two best actors working today are in the same movie..... jake gyllenhaal and jake gyllenhaal
"Chaos is order yet undeciphered."
Well, that was a mind distorter if there ever was one. I don't think I can remember having left a theater so confused before. I turned to the man next to me, who I noticed had also gone to see the same film, and noticed that he was shaking his head. "What did you think of it?," I asked him. "Not good... not good at all." And I totally understood where he was coming from, because who could have been prepared for a film (or an ending, for that matter) like that?
Yet I was not on the same page; I loved Enemy. I LOVED it. Maybe it has to do with my appreciation for…
Did not realize how terrified I was of Jake Gyllenhaal until this......
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what the fuck???
why was he so freaked out by meeting someone who looks like him.. like... twins exist? you've never seen the parent trap jake?
Me after watching Enemy: what does any of this mean?
Every film review based account on YouTube: here is a clear and well thought out short explanation behind the confusing subplot and imagery of this film, with clips to reference and bold text for visual ease!
Me: aaaaah thank you!! :) I get it now
Me, after rewatching Enemy: but what does any of this mean
me: "this is pretty cool, i guess"
jake gyllenhaal: [has a hairy chest]
me: "wow... A Fílm... really makes you think..."
Denis Villeneuve’s “Enemy” might have the scariest ending of any film ever made. While such a proclamation no doubt seems both wildly hyperbolic and uselessly broad (how to compare the sudden revulsion of “Don’t Look Now”’s final shots with the icy, germinating dread imbued into the haunting last shot of a film like “The White Ribbon”?), viewers of certain predispositions and phobias will invariably sign off on such a statement as “Enemy” abruptly cuts to its closing titles.
A strange and agreeably pretentious adaptation of the late José Saramago’s novel “The Double”, Villeneuve’s film is faithful to the source material in broad strokes, but also enjoyably overeager to spotlight and sexualize the text’s most sinister undercurrents. One of two Villeneuve…