“Chaos is order yet undeciphered.”

Enemy was exhilarating, I was so tensed during the whole movie about what was going on and couldn’t look away. Even if you set aside the doppelganger plot of the movie, the world and details in it that Denis Villeneuve created are beautifully exhausting and suffocating. I was taking screenshots and zooming in to a scene of a character turning off lights because I wanted to see if the design of the switches mean the setting is a dystopian one, that’s what this movie was doing to me lol

It has this dystopain kafka-esque feeling to it that you can’t stop what’s happening and you don’t know what’s happening. The city in Enemy has this perpetual yellow haze over it that seems to wash over on everything and affect the characters as well as what’s going on in their minds. The two characters often have vivid dreams of the city scape with a giant deformed spider walking above it and it seems to represent to me, this influence of ugliness and stagnant-ness. It’s like a cloud of yellow exhausting cancer over everything which detoriates itself into people’s subconciousness and makes them do ugly things.

Regardless of whether or not you understand it or not or whether there is something to understand about it, Enemy is a suffocating, beautifully acted and well-directed movie that evokes feelings in me that movies rarely do.

It’s a very focused and well constructed movie, like details I mentioned feel intentional, like they mean something or maybe they don’t and it’s just a stylistic choice.

I loved it, 7.5/10