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Enemy – 2013 Villeneuve
- There is much here to admire formally—the spiders as an ongoing motif and recurring construct
- Fantastic silent opening—bizarre and erotic—reminded me of an eyes wide shut meeting
- The green/yellow lighting is a bit like a Fincher film and like the opening of joe versus the volcano– you can feel the lighting sucking the like out of you
- Wonderful use of urban architecture and the city of Toronto as a character with the establishing shots
- Reminded me of Cronenberg’s work—particularly Crash—eerie slow-burn also set in Toronto– and Cronenberg’s aptly named spider from 2002
- Doppelganger, paranoia—largely silent- moody and atmospheric—strong sense of dread the entire film—no narrative drive like villeneuve’s films like arrival and sicario
- The upside down naked woman with spider head is exactly half-way through the film—not a formal coincidence
- Love the windshield broken as a spider web
- A Must-See film- top 10 quality of the year film
Drake2022-01-26T22:28:39+00:00
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Is this Jake Gyllenhaal’s best performance to date?
Zodiac is my favorite film with Gyllenhaal and he gives a great performance in it but I would put his more complex performances in Enemy and Nightcrawler above it:
1. Nightcrawler
2. Enemy
3. Donnie Darko
4. Zodiac
5. Prisoners
Admittingly I have only seen Brokeback Mountain once and it was a while back
I think I’d rank his work in Nightcrawler, Jarhead, Zodiac and Brokeback Mountain higher.
@Harry – on 2nd thought I would probably switch # 3 and # 4, I have not seen Jarhead and like I said I have only seen Brokeback once although I remeber it being an impressive performance. I wasn’t all that impressed by Southpaw (2015) overall but I think it adds to his range of performances, especially when you contrast it with Nightcrawler (2014) which was made just 1 year earlier as Gyllenhaal’s Lou Bloom was scrawny, pale, and sickly looking so quite a transformation to playing a boxing champion a year later.