For me, this scene was of unparalleled brilliance in its use in "Enemy". It intruded just the way dreams do into our lives without warning, alternating with everyday reality, indeed sometimes surpassing it for vividness, as this sequence did in the movie. We suddenly find ourselves somehow in a different realm, and it is only as we emerge from a dream that we realise what it was...
Baville On a personal level, this movie had an even more bizarre effect on me. Last year a holiday photograph of my brother and I when we were boys was published in a newspaper. Even though I had submitted the photo, it still seemed rather odd to see it in a national newspaper. It was taken a long time ago and was in black and white. Subsequently I found myself in a strange town, and while walking along a street, I noticed a woman going into a building holding a photograph, which to my amazement turned out to be the one of my brother and I that had appeared in the newspaper. I followed her into the building; it was a kind of vast hall, where copies of photographs of their community were being distributed. Again to my astonishment, I noticed that my brother and I featured in some of the photographs. How could this be, I wondered? I had never been to this town. As I attempted to explain to the woman on the way out of the building, how bizarre I found this situation to be, like a soap bubble bursting, or like a person surfacing who had held their breath underwater, with a gasp I awoke in the dark! I realised that I had been dreaming. But what was even more eerie, it struck me how this dream paralleled the “Enemy” scenario. Moreover, the dream was of such vividness, unlike most dreams that evaporate soon after we wake, that I couldn’t stop thinking about it for hours afterwards…
There is no question that a dream is clearly a true projection of the fourth dimension. Something that could or will happen depending on our fates and decisions. But it was an interesting read. Thank you for that! :)
theprophet20 hello, it has been a while since this was written. Yet to this day I thank you for sharing your thoughts. Enemy is a wonderful movie and I rejoice in believing there are other people who have enjoyed it alongside me. Thanks!
@@theprophet20 I liked that you could remember and write it down here, all those years ago. I'm watching Enemy again now for the first time since 2013,, 11 years, but I know now that i have to watch it different . Like with our collective mind, that's always there for the reach. The dictator history speech/ Sex sequence reminded me of how people used to be more critical towards those funkers, just a decade ago.
Enemy is as close as anyone that could get to David Lynch. We got the weird paranoia, angles, a pair of doppelgängers, Isabella Rossellini ( Blue Velvet) that tells him to quit that fantasy about being a movie actor. It's Lost Highway and Mulholland Dr. He's at war with his own shadow self and so many other things. Similarities are striking. I think it's Denis Villeneuve last chance to make this kind of art house project before he got to make all those big budget films. I was just watching it for the first time since it came out. I remember that it did hit a cord in me but i did not understand it and left it at that. I have been waiting to see Dune 2 now for months but tomorrow i'll watch Dune 1 and then go on the other at the Cinema. I think it's getting out this week.
men who dont have hat on their heads have wifes. 1 man is wearing a hat he wants the woman the frightened wife fears of losing husband at the end a man who has wife go for the "spider"-- woman women's hats are like spiderwebs
My interpretation of the spider symbol was always women and/or commitment in a relationship. Saint Claire didn't want to feel "trapped" in the spider web.
For me, this scene was of unparalleled brilliance in its use in "Enemy". It intruded just the way dreams do into our lives without warning, alternating with everyday reality, indeed sometimes surpassing it for vividness, as this sequence did in the movie. We suddenly find ourselves somehow in a different realm, and it is only as we emerge from a dream that we realise what it was...
theprophet20 We agree fully! That's exactly what we thought! :)
Baville
On a
personal level, this movie had an even more bizarre effect on me.
Last year a
holiday photograph of my brother and I when we were boys was published in a
newspaper. Even though I had submitted
the photo, it still seemed rather odd to see it in a national newspaper. It was taken a long time ago and was in black
and white.
Subsequently
I found myself in a strange town, and while walking along a street, I noticed a
woman going into a building holding a photograph, which to my amazement turned
out to be the one of my brother and I that had appeared in the newspaper.
I followed
her into the building; it was a kind of vast hall, where copies of photographs
of their community were being distributed.
Again to my astonishment, I noticed that my brother and I featured in
some of the photographs. How could this be, I wondered? I had never been to this town.
As I
attempted to explain to the woman on the way out of the building, how bizarre I
found this situation to be, like a soap bubble bursting, or like a person
surfacing who had held their breath underwater, with a gasp I awoke in the
dark! I realised that I had been
dreaming. But what was even more eerie,
it struck me how this dream paralleled the “Enemy” scenario.
Moreover,
the dream was of such vividness, unlike most dreams that evaporate soon after
we wake, that I couldn’t stop thinking about it for hours afterwards…
There is no question that a dream is clearly a true projection of the fourth dimension. Something that could or will happen depending on our fates and decisions. But it was an interesting read. Thank you for that! :)
theprophet20 hello, it has been a while since this was written. Yet to this day I thank you for sharing your thoughts. Enemy is a wonderful movie and I rejoice in believing there are other people who have enjoyed it alongside me. Thanks!
@@theprophet20 I liked that you could remember and write it down here, all those years ago. I'm watching Enemy again now for the first time since 2013,, 11 years, but I know now that i have to watch it different . Like with our collective mind, that's always there for the reach. The dictator history speech/ Sex sequence reminded me of how people used to be more critical towards those funkers, just a decade ago.
Enemy is as close as anyone that could get to David Lynch. We got the weird paranoia, angles, a pair of doppelgängers, Isabella Rossellini ( Blue Velvet) that tells him to quit that fantasy about being a movie actor. It's Lost Highway and Mulholland Dr. He's at war with his own shadow self and so many other things. Similarities are striking. I think it's Denis Villeneuve last chance to make this kind of art house project before he got to make all those big budget films. I was just watching it for the first time since it came out. I remember that it did hit a cord in me but i did not understand it and left it at that. I have been waiting to see Dune 2 now for months but tomorrow i'll watch Dune 1 and then go on the other at the Cinema. I think it's getting out this week.
men who dont have hat on their heads have wifes. 1 man is wearing a hat he wants the woman
the frightened wife fears of losing husband
at the end a man who has wife go for the "spider"-- woman
women's hats are like spiderwebs
+ maybe woman's sunglass shows she is the spider, last man has sunglass too>> he "stucked in the web"?! :D
no one reads this i guess XD
did you notice the necktie of the man around 0:26?
Gianluca Murru
Wow!
My interpretation of the spider symbol was always women and/or commitment in a relationship. Saint Claire didn't want to feel "trapped" in the spider web.