Sunday 13 November 2016

The colonel knows best

The Double (2013)

Directed by Richard Ayoade this film based on the novella of the same name stars Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska. A timid and downtrodden office worker meets his much more confident double.

Taking Dostoyevsky and pairing it with a Terry Gilliam style world provides a great adaptation filled to the brim interesting content everywhere you look. I really enjoyed the exploration of identity but would have liked to have seen a little more uncertainty in the reliability of the protagonist. It is hard to pick faults with this film as it is an excellently directed and acted adaptation that I would highly recommend.


5/5

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