Anthony is more outgoing, more confident.

She seems to come to his barren apartment every night and the two of them spend a minimal amount of time together before moving to the bedroom, and she always seems to leave in anger or exasperation when it's through. He's got a beautiful girlfriend named Mary (Mélanie Laurent) but there's some unknown tension between the two of them. He doesn't say much and he's very socially awkward. And the characterswell, no one is happy here. Everything is has an unnerving yellow sickness to it. It's incredibly dark with lots of shadows and harsh lighting, and the entire movie has this bizarre yellow tint to it. At first impression, ENEMY is a very depressing film.

He tracks the actor down, Anthony (also Gyllenhaal), and discovers they're physically identical in every way. Adam is suggested a film from a work colleague that he might enjoy and becomes obsessed when an extra in the film looks exactly like him. On the surface, ENEMY is about history teacher Adam Bell (Gyllenhaal). But that's me and my obsessive nature, and others can do their own research. I know my first viewing led to two days of thought trying to decipher what I'd seen and it wasn't until I scoured the Internet, reading over the frustration of others and the myriad of proposed meanings, that I felt I'd come to an understanding. Most of which can't be discussed without entering spoiler territory so I won't touch on it much, but this is a movie that inspires discussion orat the very leastwill leave you contemplating it long after it ends. It has a surface plot that's easy enough to understand but the film is loaded with symbolism and deeper themes. Most general audiences don't like something they can't understand, and ENEMY is probably best described as a mental cluster fumess. Watching it, I figured out why it never went mainstream. ENEMY was released around the same time as PRISONERS but never saw a national release and I had to wait for the home video release to finally catch it. Denis Villeneuve garnered a lot of attention for his mainstream success with PRISONERS, starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, but it was it smaller, more obscure release that I wanted to see.

The enemy by sarah