Enemy

8/10
Jake Gyllenhaal is one of the best actors of our generation. Not enough can be said. The subtleties he shows playing two roles are very slight but still evident. The movie itself definitely makes you ponder everything, especially the ending. Pretty bizarre but still good

I wish there was a wtf was that rating lol jake is my guy one of my favs but I have a headache from trying to figure this one out ……. And to say you will never see this ending coming is the understatement of the century ……..

Possibly the worst Villeneuve project yet. Not because it's necessarily bad, but because it's convoluted and pretentious. The metaphors felt obnoxiously confusing and over the top. The acting felt boring. The casting felt wasted, and the pacing felt drainingly slow due to the lack of development. The only real blame I place on Villeneuve is for choosing this book to adapt. I don't know much about it, but for a film, it doesn't seem to work, not without at least some input. All in all, I'd probably recommend any other project in the director's filmography before this one.

This movie is a lot deeper than it seems. Jake Gyllenhaal performing another masterclass. I watched a YouTube video explain this and I helped me understand it a lot more, so I may go back and watch it again soon. I really enjoyed the use of color. They used a lot of yellow which I feel like I haven’t seen in a while. The sound/music was pretty good, I think they may have overplayed the tension sounds to try and make it more thrilling but I still enjoyed. I also like how the lessons he was teaching in his classes directly correlate to how the story unfolds and will unfold. I saw someone say this had fight club vibes and I can agree with it, but I feel like this one is a little harder to decipher when it is actually him. I know that sometimes he’s in his own head just thinking about doing what is happening but sometimes that was a little hard follow. I think a cool effect they could have added to help display that he’s in a sort of psychosis is when they were together making the camera fuzzy to more shaky. Overall I enjoyed the movie, I think after a rewatch it could get boosted up to a heart but this is where I sit for now.

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I still can’t process if I like this movie or not, I guess I just DONT like magic realism and wish it was executed a bit differently in the end cuz I was invested and then confused af. It still makes you think and want to figure all this out but uhhh not my cup of tea