https://vo.rs/tags/doppelganger/Latest from the Doppelganger desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/enemy-villeneuves-spider-the-double-and-the-dread/<p>Denis Villeneuve is now the most reliable maker of large, serious science fiction alive — <em>Arrival</em>, the two <em>Dune</em> films, <em>Blade Runner 2049</em> — a director trusted with the biggest canvases in the genre. <em>Enemy</em>, made in 2013 in the gap before all of that, is the film that explains him, and it is the least like any of them: small, sick-yellow, sparsely scored, ninety minutes of mounting dread with barely a plot to hold on to. It is the one where you can watch him work out, in private, the obsessions the blockbusters would later dress in scale. If you want to know what Villeneuve is actually afraid of, this is the file.</p>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-doppelganger-film-and-the-anxiety-of-the-self/<p>The double is one of the oldest monsters in the box, older than the vampire and stranger than the ghost, and it has never needed fangs. The doppelganger frightens because it makes a quiet, unbearable suggestion: that the thing you believe is most singularly yours, your face, your voice, your one unrepeatable self, could be copied, and that the copy might be better at being you than you are. Freud filed this under the uncanny, the <em>unheimlich</em>, the sensation of something familiar turned wrong. Cinema, which is a machine for manufacturing doubles at twenty-four frames a second, has been circling it since the silent era.</p>Tue, 14 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000