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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