Review of Enemy (2014) by Olivierpiel — 26 Dec 2019
Not every great music has to be a symphony or an opera. Sometimes, a little chamber music can be witty and entertaining. For books and films it is the same thing.
Denis Villeneuve should have kept doing this type of ingenious, powerful and intimate films, rather than getting lost, or better said, diluted, in projects such as Arrival and Blade Runner since some of the ideas and scenes he developed in Enemy have been copied in both blockbusters but in a far more bloated, bland and ponderous fashion.
In this film, Villeneuve's tackles the postmodern man's neurosis, bad faith, schizophrenia and masculinity's terror of femninity in a masterly fashion.
Minus points: Pacing is laborious.
This review of Enemy (2014) was written by Olivierpiel on 26 Dec 2019.
Enemy has generally received positive reviews.
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