Saturday, October 4, 2014

Enemy

2013's Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal is an interesting psychological thriller about a history teacher (Gyllenhaal) who one day finds his exact look alike in a small part of a local film recommended by a work colleague.  From here, the curiousness of finding his double gradually becomes an obsession that gets out of hand and permeates his life.  Ultimately, this is one of those cleverly written (novelist Jose Saramago and screen adaptation by Javier Gullon) and directed (Denis Villeneuve) films that leaves the audience with enough enjoyable ambiguity to watch over and over with perhaps a deeper understanding or perplexity.  Gyllenhaal's acting subtlety is astonishing to watch here and it's a fresh break for him that mainstream films rarely afford.  In that same unorthodox vein, great affect is made of interior and exterior locations and the cinematography to give a heightened suspense to the story, much as a someone like Hitchcock would have done. 

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