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2014 · thriller · drama

The Double

Directed by Richard Ayoade1h 33m2014
ElsewhereIMDb6.454kRT83%Metacritic68
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • inventive
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.

Our read · The Double (2014) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want Kafkaesque office dread where identity collapses into one man's spiral.

ends ambiguousit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 12attention 5/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upsuicide theme

Skip it tonightSkip if bleak dystopian comedy and suicide undertones feel too claustrophobic tonight.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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