Adapted from the Fyodor Dostoyevsky novella of the same name, Richard Ayoade’s The Double is as schizophrenic as Jesse Eisenberg’s Simon James, teetering on the brink of profound themes of alienation, but ultimately distracted by the unfortunate style-over-substance approach that the filmmaker takes.
Simon is an invisible cog in the machine at a dead-end job; he describes himself as Pinocchio, a wooden puppet held up by strings who longs to be a real boy. Fascinated with co-worker Hannah (Mia Wasikowska) but too timid to approach her, Simon’s life is changed when a doppelganger named James (also Eisenberg) usurps his very existence. James steals Simon’s work, his romantic interests, and soon, his sanity.
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