This movie is a masterpiece, it just blows your mind all the way through and it's almost painful to see what Simon goes through, and you get so invested in the character, just amazing
@cat intensifies You’re exactly right. Throughout the entire movie you just feel so bad for Simon. James is just taking over his world and destroying everything he had, and once you get to the ending it is just absolutely incredible. This really was a masterpiece for Richard Ayoades first feature film.
The vintage machines and tools, the constant working in corporations, the feeling of being numb and disconnected, the struggle with your inner-self/emotions/the other you .. all made in wonderful set. Good movie.
This film made me feel very claustrophobic because of the way it looked and the colours used along with the fact the characters looked almost sweaty all the time and they looked as though they wore the exact same clothes everyday...
A really great film, definitely would recommend. Not a Jesse Eisenberg fan but he did really well in his role(s). And who could dislike Mia Wasikowska? Ayoade's future as a director is looking very promising, I just hope he continues to receive funding for his films.
The way Richard Ayoade talks about this movie as if it's a comedy while it's actually one of the most isolating and lonely films I've ever experienced.
Aspects of this film reminds me of the book Metropolis with it's regimented dystopian workplace etc. When he was talking about people gravitating to one man and not the other without any physical differences between them, it reminded me of Beldent's 'Does Chewing Gum Make You Seem More Fun?' experiment/advert thing. Richard Ayoade is a genius.
Does anyone else see the similarities between the look of this and the movie 'Brazil'? I think Richard was definitely inspired by the aforementioned 80's flick (which was genius if you haven't seen it BTW). I cannot wait to see this film, I am extremely intrigued by the plot. Richard is one of my favorite comedians, presenters and directors. Wonderment!
Kristian Kebbe Totally. I wonder what his other inspirations were as well as what is the name of the actress that plays the waitress in the diner scene? She's so familiar!
Kristian Kebbe Of course, Moriarty! What a great name. The same name as the ever elusive villain in Sherlock Holmes. She is very talented and I completely agree with the David Lynch statement. My only problem with this behind the scenes type video: I wish it would have stated when the bloody thing was coming out! lol ^_^
A true work of art for viewers to interpret the story as they themselves see the world. For me. Hannah looks and acts just like a girl i loved and wasnt good enough for. So to me the film expresses that longing i feel. Almost a reflection of the exact events in a way. N. This is why i see the film from a point of simon trapped in a prison of his mind. Stricken by the lust he feels for his counterpart. Unable to find a healthy balance to succeed in the relationship until he dies. He can never stop loving hannah. Other women are just bad replacements of melany. N melany is just the james to simon as hannah to melany. Both hurting on another in a self destructive mannerism. To say the film is a master piece is narrow minded. Its a work of true art for every viewer to interpret. And ive found countless interrwining metaphors and visual cues. Ideals and expressions that twist your mind in a chaotic string of interpretations. As an artist its so heavy to me. As a regular viewer i see each story told over one another in a battle of paradoxical conclusions i cant properly define.
Beginning of the movie : whuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut - end of the movie.
Aside from other’s obvious reflections. The double offers something completely missed by regular viewers. The movie has various metaphors and hints. . Next time you watch it. Think of it like this. Simon is actually at a mental hospital. From the moment he leaves the train. His belongings are trapped and taken…. . Hannah is actually dead the entire movie. Melany is hannah and hannah is melany. Its saying that hannah has two sides. Melany is the dark lusting female. Hannah the innocent creative soul without hormones. When simon. Calls her up. Its him reaching out for hannah in melany. Only to then shut it down and hurt her. They are the same person…. Simon advances on her too strongly n this is conveyed throughout the movie. . Later she kills herself n it shows her in melany’s makeup to confirm this that they are the same person. The entire movie. Hes basically reliving her suicide over and over. Hannah being his true love n other women are objects of lust. He has immense guilt for cheating on her. Using her. And sleeping around. . Everytime he kills himself he awakens a new person trying to move on from what he did to hannah but cant. Thats him jumping off the building. Trying to get healthy n leave the hospital. . Enter the train again. Hes been there 7 years at the “company”. So we can assume hes done this frequently by assessing the time line. as a hard working man. His innocence is his work. Akin to hannah’s drawings. Hes in a psychosis trying to conclude the hospital is his place of work. Also he is working to get better... . But the vacant coworkers are a metaphor for the doctors and other patients who never leave. to only see him as a patient. Not a person…. One doctor his main boss isnt really helping him. He plays along with his psychosis. Seeing simon as a lost cause... simon, Basically, He sees hannah everywhere. Everytime he goes out. Its hannah. But remember shes actually dead. also, melany’s father is the owner. Vs hannah’s manager is her mother. Showing how parents inspire different tenacity in the woman. That they can be two different people while men are overshadowing their humility to succeed. Its conveying how young women when they hit puberty become someone else while men dont really change. Men just put on a personna. the guard that lets him in the door. Is shown in a doctor’s outfit during the suicide scene. To show he snaps out of his psychosis a little but are actually at the hospital the entire time. Every work evaluation is him talking to a doctor. The coworker’s and their vacancy to him are other patients n doctors thrown into the mix. Along with anyone that acknowledges him are people he confides in different ways to the doctors of the hospital. Love this movie. Watching it once. You may not notice all of this. Its alot to take in since the movie is showing two completely different interpretations at once. Each interpretation kind of over lays the other in various ways to convey a very deep movie of logical twists n turns. Playing into one or the other based on how you want to see it. Like a two seperate people interpreting an abstract painting n seeing a different image. All the variables. Representing the seperate hemispheres of our brains
Another interpretation to the double Still in a psyche ward. But the entire movie is representing a study on multiple personality disorder. From catatonic schizophrenia to split personality and multiple personality. Hannah doesnt actually exist. Its a personification of her inner child and youth. How she sees herself. How she truly is. The old woman in the copy room is a personification of her job and professional self. Almost like we are hearing her inner thoughts “oh the creepy guy is back..hey creepy guy”. Its simultaneously how one is Seeing themself as they age. Similar to how people look into a mirror and see themselves as fat. But imagine this. hannah works alone the entire movie... and what she actually is, is never shown. Its how james see her is sweet hannah as hannah sees herself. . Melany institutionalized herself while the rest are genuinely there for a lack of awareness to their psychological issues. Which is why melany doesnt have a different version of herself unless it is the blonde waitress..which would make sense if melany as her emo self is on break but everytime we see the blond waitress she puts on her professional persona as a lunch lady or the nurse that takes care of him to bring him food?! . The old lady in his mother’s room has the same illness as hannah. Which derives his obsession with hannah. However because he sees his mother in her compared to regular women he sleeps around with. He is in a moral contradiction which creates james simon and simon james. She brings out his good side. Other women bring out his eager. Competitive and lusting side of carnality. Anyone sitting behind any desk in a power of position has no dopple ganger. They are still the hospital staff.
So does james really exist? And why nobody can see him when there is one scene, there is this girl notice that simon and james look the same? sorry i have poor english.
Martin -҉ OK. Now I'm confused. Let me get this straight, what we are seeing here was Simon's mind, right? He is only hallucinating someone wherever he goes? The man that Simon's boss who favourite so much because of his work was done by Simon, correct? In the end the boss hated Simon because of the pictures that was taken by "James." Simon wasn't with the boss daughter because he had other things to do, James was. He can't be imagining James was with the boss daughter while he doing whatever was he doing. (What was Simon doing while James being busy the boss daughters?) In the end, when he was in the ambulance, the colonel and Hannah appeared, were they also just Simon's imagination?
watched this film last night. went in not knowing what to expect and it quickly won me over with its look and feel. despite being heavily (and uniquely) stylized it felt incredibly authentic and relatable. and not just in its message. certain formal elements felt like they were from inside my head. ie the way sounds cut in and out. i liked it a lot and felt very comfortable in it, despite everything that happens lol 🫶
I'm sorry but I do not understand this movie at all like tf he hurts himself and the other gets the same pain ???doesnt make sense also tf?!?the ending makes nooooooo absolute sense😭🔫🔫
sense? You need to pay attention when you watch a film not just put it and just seeing it pass by you need to actually read into it. Besides the ending is pretty simple and clear and also you say it makes no sense you do realize that this is a work of fiction don't you?
Firstly, I know I'm 6 years late to respond. Secondly, I feel like these responses are incredibly mean. Thirdly, something I thought when I was watching this movie was "This is a dystopian parallel universe." Pretty much from the get-go, a man on the train tells him to move, even though there are plenty of other seats. That just doesn't make sense. Btw I don't intend for any of this to come across as demeaning. Apologies in advance if that is the case. Once I understood that it was a dystopian, differing universe, I let them go where they wanted with it (obviously within reason), so the injuries made sense to me. If you're willing to look deeper, I guess you could say that the physical injuries revealed who they were "Beneath the skin." - People started noticing they were different people from the moment he was cut on the neck.
the movie sucked, did not make sense its trying to be in a "artistic" way but is just a jumbled mess that has no clear meaning behind it like all the scenes you see don't add up to what they are trying to make out it
This is a terrible movie!!! Why does everyone talk to both guys separately if they are the same person!!!!????? Stupid, stupid movie yet all the film people say it's good!!!??? So dumb!!! Oh the artsyness of the film they say. I don't care why dose everyone talk to both guys!!!!!?????
This movie is a masterpiece, it just blows your mind all the way through and it's almost painful to see what Simon goes through, and you get so invested in the character, just amazing
cat intensifies this movie was dumb kinda,
@cat intensifies You’re exactly right. Throughout the entire movie you just feel so bad for Simon. James is just taking over his world and destroying everything he had, and once you get to the ending it is just absolutely incredible. This really was a masterpiece for Richard Ayoades first feature film.
this movie is trash and makes no sense,tf you talking about MASTERPIECE LOL
The vintage machines and tools, the constant working in corporations, the feeling of being numb and disconnected, the struggle with your inner-self/emotions/the other you .. all made in wonderful set. Good movie.
the films aesthetic really reminds me of 1984 so much
Sabina Karim and Fahrenheit 451
Yeah me too
Brazil and Earaserhead struck me. Also Ayoade had expreced interest in David Lynch.
Exactly what I thought.
lmao, delusions have gone this far😂
I wish Richard Ayoade can direct/write more movies.
This film made me feel very claustrophobic because of the way it looked and the colours used along with the fact the characters looked almost sweaty all the time and they looked as though they wore the exact same clothes everyday...
A really great film, definitely would recommend. Not a Jesse Eisenberg fan but he did really well in his role(s). And who could dislike Mia Wasikowska? Ayoade's future as a director is looking very promising, I just hope he continues to receive funding for his films.
Not sure why many people keep repeating that the picture quality of 4K digital is superior to photo-chemical. Just look at this film.
It was a decent film. Very artistic. The style and the directing and editing was great. I see it being a cult film for sure.
The way Richard Ayoade talks about this movie as if it's a comedy while it's actually one of the most isolating and lonely films I've ever experienced.
Aspects of this film reminds me of the book Metropolis with it's regimented dystopian workplace etc. When he was talking about people gravitating to one man and not the other without any physical differences between them, it reminded me of Beldent's 'Does Chewing Gum Make You Seem More Fun?' experiment/advert thing. Richard Ayoade is a genius.
Why did they spend so much time and money creating a second Jesse Eisenberg when they could have just hired Michael Cera?
torlock43 LMAO I KNOW I COULDNT BE THE ONLY THAT THINK THEY LOOK VERY MUCH ALIKE
not sure about looks but they definitely SOUND very much alike, along with personality
@@shebamiranda9661 but i think andy samberg
Does anyone else see the similarities between the look of this and the movie 'Brazil'? I think Richard was definitely inspired by the aforementioned 80's flick (which was genius if you haven't seen it BTW). I cannot wait to see this film, I am extremely intrigued by the plot. Richard is one of my favorite comedians, presenters and directors. Wonderment!
Yeah it definitely has a 'Gilliam' feel to it.
Kristian Kebbe Totally. I wonder what his other inspirations were as well as what is the name of the actress that plays the waitress in the diner scene? She's so familiar!
David Lynch was probably another notable inspiration. The actress is Cathy Moriarty, she's been in a ton of films.
Kristian Kebbe Of course, Moriarty! What a great name. The same name as the ever elusive villain in Sherlock Holmes. She is very talented and I completely agree with the David Lynch statement. My only problem with this behind the scenes type video: I wish it would have stated when the bloody thing was coming out! lol ^_^
From his interviews, he said that he's actually never watched Brazil during the course of the (pre-)production of this film
This looks incredibly interesting, I'll have to give it a watch!
Wuttin I felt like I wasted my time.
@@JasonXBeatssame
Such a good movie love Richard ayoade and Jessie eisenberg
lol the director is the guy that played jamarcus in the movie, the watch
That was one thing he did. Everything he does is grist for the mill.
Really didn't think Thornton Reed was knowledgeable about cinematography, I'm pleasantly surprised!
Loving the aesthetic of this!
This was a very good movie. Jessie is a great actor.
this looks fantastic!
Cannot wait to see this!
I’m in love with this film.
A true work of art for viewers to interpret the story as they themselves see the world.
For me. Hannah looks and acts just like a girl i loved and wasnt good enough for. So to me the film expresses that longing i feel. Almost a reflection of the exact events in a way. N. This is why i see the film from a point of simon trapped in a prison of his mind. Stricken by the lust he feels for his counterpart. Unable to find a healthy balance to succeed in the relationship until he dies. He can never stop loving hannah. Other women are just bad replacements of melany. N melany is just the james to simon as hannah to melany. Both hurting on another in a self destructive mannerism.
To say the film is a master piece is narrow minded. Its a work of true art for every viewer to interpret. And ive found countless interrwining metaphors and visual cues. Ideals and expressions that twist your mind in a chaotic string of interpretations. As an artist its so heavy to me. As a regular viewer i see each story told over one another in a battle of paradoxical conclusions i cant properly define.
Beginning of the movie : whuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut - end of the movie.
perfectly explained
Aside from other’s obvious reflections. The double offers something completely missed by regular viewers. The movie has various metaphors and hints. . Next time you watch it. Think of it like this. Simon is actually at a mental hospital. From the moment he leaves the train. His belongings are trapped and taken…. . Hannah is actually dead the entire movie. Melany is hannah and hannah is melany. Its saying that hannah has two sides. Melany is the dark lusting female. Hannah the innocent creative soul without hormones. When simon. Calls her up. Its him reaching out for hannah in melany. Only to then shut it down and hurt her. They are the same person…. Simon advances on her too strongly n this is conveyed throughout the movie. . Later she kills herself n it shows her in melany’s makeup to confirm this that they are the same person. The entire movie. Hes basically reliving her suicide over and over. Hannah being his true love n other women are objects of lust. He has immense guilt for cheating on her. Using her. And sleeping around. . Everytime he kills himself he awakens a new person trying to move on from what he did to hannah but cant. Thats him jumping off the building. Trying to get healthy n leave the hospital. . Enter the train again. Hes been there 7 years at the “company”. So we can assume hes done this frequently by assessing the time line. as a hard working man. His innocence is his work. Akin to hannah’s drawings. Hes in a psychosis trying to conclude the hospital is his place of work. Also he is working to get better... . But the vacant coworkers are a metaphor for the doctors and other patients who never leave. to only see him as a patient. Not a person…. One doctor his main boss isnt really helping him. He plays along with his psychosis. Seeing simon as a lost cause... simon, Basically, He sees hannah everywhere. Everytime he goes out. Its hannah. But remember shes actually dead.
also, melany’s father is the owner. Vs hannah’s manager is her mother. Showing how parents inspire different tenacity in the woman. That they can be two different people while men are overshadowing their humility to succeed. Its conveying how young women when they hit puberty become someone else while men dont really change. Men just put on a personna.
the guard that lets him in the door. Is shown in a doctor’s outfit during the suicide scene. To show he snaps out of his psychosis a little but are actually at the hospital the entire time. Every work evaluation is him talking to a doctor. The coworker’s and their vacancy to him are other patients n doctors thrown into the mix. Along with anyone that acknowledges him are people he confides in different ways to the doctors of the hospital.
Love this movie. Watching it once. You may not notice all of this. Its alot to take in since the movie is showing two completely different interpretations at once. Each interpretation kind of over lays the other in various ways to convey a very deep movie of logical twists n turns. Playing into one or the other based on how you want to see it. Like a two seperate people interpreting an abstract painting n seeing a different image. All the variables. Representing the seperate hemispheres of our brains
Is it just me, or does this video make me see a resemblance between Jesse and Matt Smith?
Reminds me of the movie Youth In Revolt
So much care was taken in making this film. I need an analysis of the sound design and score.
"With Hilarious Consequences!" bro i wept three times. what is funny
7:00 that looks like an eraser head influence if i ever saw one!
so he basically played the same character twice in the same movie
Another interpretation to the double
Still in a psyche ward. But the entire movie is representing a study on multiple personality disorder. From catatonic schizophrenia to split personality and multiple personality.
Hannah doesnt actually exist. Its a personification of her inner child and youth. How she sees herself. How she truly is. The old woman in the copy room is a personification of her job and professional self. Almost like we are hearing her inner thoughts “oh the creepy guy is back..hey creepy guy”. Its simultaneously how one is Seeing themself as they age. Similar to how people look into a mirror and see themselves as fat. But imagine this. hannah works alone the entire movie... and what she actually is, is never shown. Its how james see her is sweet hannah as hannah sees herself. .
Melany institutionalized herself while the rest are genuinely there for a lack of awareness to their psychological issues. Which is why melany doesnt have a different version of herself unless it is the blonde waitress..which would make sense if melany as her emo self is on break but everytime we see the blond waitress she puts on her professional persona as a lunch lady or the nurse that takes care of him to bring him food?! . The old lady in his mother’s room has the same illness as hannah. Which derives his obsession with hannah. However because he sees his mother in her compared to regular women he sleeps around with. He is in a moral contradiction which creates james simon and simon james. She brings out his good side. Other women bring out his eager. Competitive and lusting side of carnality.
Anyone sitting behind any desk in a power of position has no dopple ganger. They are still the hospital staff.
Paddy Considine :)
What?
So does james really exist? And why nobody can see him when there is one scene, there is this girl notice that simon and james look the same? sorry i have poor english.
The story is told by Simon, he sees James and imagines that everybody else can also see him.
Martin -҉ OK. Now I'm confused. Let me get this straight, what we are seeing here was Simon's mind, right? He is only hallucinating someone wherever he goes? The man that Simon's boss who favourite so much because of his work was done by Simon, correct? In the end the boss hated Simon because of the pictures that was taken by "James." Simon wasn't with the boss daughter because he had other things to do, James was. He can't be imagining James was with the boss daughter while he doing whatever was he doing. (What was Simon doing while James being busy the boss daughters?) In the end, when he was in the ambulance, the colonel and Hannah appeared, were they also just Simon's imagination?
*while James being busy with the boss daughter* sorry forgotten about the *with*
Download link or any website??
I'm really eager to know how one was in front of the other in shots like 4:46.
My guess is rotoscoping or green screen the one in front
watched this film last night. went in not knowing what to expect and it quickly won me over with its look and feel. despite being heavily (and uniquely) stylized it felt incredibly authentic and relatable. and not just in its message. certain formal elements felt like they were from inside my head. ie the way sounds cut in and out. i liked it a lot and felt very comfortable in it, despite everything that happens lol 🫶
Dystopian alternate universe where the world war 2 lasted longer with so many nuclear bombs dropped. And japan won. The story takes place in 2013.
if Jesse Eisenberg is Michael Cera's double, then this movie is a clone of Youth in Revolt
Things that you gonna make a hmmm
If this guy explained the film to me. Id not have seen it.
The IT Crowd! haha
The depth of done of these responses is pathetic.
I'm sorry but I do not understand this movie at all like tf he hurts himself and the other gets the same pain ???doesnt make sense also tf?!?the ending makes nooooooo absolute sense😭🔫🔫
You must be the dumbest person I have ever herd talk that's isn't diagnosed with any mental problem if you think that
sense? You need to pay attention when you watch a film not just put it and just seeing it pass by you need to actually read into it. Besides the ending is pretty simple and clear and also you say it makes no sense you do realize that this is a work of fiction don't you?
Firstly, I know I'm 6 years late to respond. Secondly, I feel like these responses are incredibly mean.
Thirdly, something I thought when I was watching this movie was "This is a dystopian parallel universe." Pretty much from the get-go, a man on the train tells him to move, even though there are plenty of other seats. That just doesn't make sense.
Btw I don't intend for any of this to come across as demeaning. Apologies in advance if that is the case.
Once I understood that it was a dystopian, differing universe, I let them go where they wanted with it (obviously within reason), so the injuries made sense to me. If you're willing to look deeper, I guess you could say that the physical injuries revealed who they were "Beneath the skin." - People started noticing they were different people from the moment he was cut on the neck.
Triangle movie? 🤷🏽♂️ repeating the same thing over and over
the explanation of the film is more interesting than the film itself :/
The film was great.
You don't know quality cinema
/ Shut your mouth idiot get out of this video if you don't like the movie
I just saw the movie but the meaning is 😳
This is basically incel the movie
the movie sucked, did not make sense its trying to be in a "artistic" way but is just a jumbled mess that has no clear meaning behind it like all the scenes you see don't add up to what they are trying to make out it
This is a terrible movie!!! Why does everyone talk to both guys separately if they are the same person!!!!????? Stupid, stupid movie yet all the film people say it's good!!!??? So dumb!!! Oh the artsyness of the film they say. I don't care why dose everyone talk to both guys!!!!!?????
no u
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