Enemy (2014)
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
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If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
Promising and weird. It just feels like there could have been at least another hour to explain it all. It just kind of ends. Disappointed.
Pointless, boring and plainly a waste of time. As the other reviewer said, I watch movies to be entertained from start to finish and not to end up with a headache trying to figure out what was going on. Jake's acting was undeniably superb but that did not help me to appreciate the whole movie perse.
This enigmatic and ominous art-house thriller is nothing short of an experience. 'Enemy (2013)' is an incredibly nuanced and involving mystery that requires work to unravel but rewards your attention (and analysis) with a multitude of meanings and a plethora possible interpretations each as valid as the last, building to become quite the conundrum of a film considering it can be two (almost) entirely different events depending on whether or not you've seen it before and whether or not you're willing to take things on more than just their face value - which, incidentally, also work wonderfully well even without the, arguably, intended 'double meaning' applied. Regardless of your interpretation, the amount of allegory and intrigue is astonishing and the fact that it gets so under your skin is nothing short of admirable, as is its ability to stay there and make you contemplate it for literal days on end. The in-the-moment vibe of the piece is top-notch, too, so that, even if you don't understand everything (or, perhaps, anything), you'll feel every single strangely disturbing yet staggeringly beautiful moment. 8/10
Did not like it, I understood what it is about but was exciting as watching a movie on how to tie shoelaces, totally not my kind of "psychological thriller". The $3.4M collected at the box office was probably Jake's pay, everyone else worked for free?