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THEME EXPLORATION

character duplication

18 films · 3 directors

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FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Duck Amuck
Duck Amuck
1953 · Chuck Jones
Fiction
Fiction
2018 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Master Gardener
Master Gardener
2023 · Paul Schrader
Detective Story
Detective Story
1951 · William Wyler
Days in the Trees
Days in the Trees
1967 · John Schlesinger
Diane
Diane
1975 · Alan Clarke
Duelle
Duelle
1976 · Jacques Rivette
Popeye's Treasure Island
Popeye's Treasure Island
1944 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
The Hypnosis
The Hypnosis
2023 · Go Ueki
Gilda Live
Gilda Live
1980 · Mike Nichols
La rossa del bar
La rossa del bar
1986 · Ventura Pons
Liar Wanted
Liar Wanted
1961 · Yannis Dalianidis
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
1970 · Mario Bava
Sonny and Jed
Sonny and Jed
1972 · Sergio Corbucci
The Cloud
The Cloud
1998 · Fernando Solanas
Beauty Salon: Special Service 2
Beauty Salon: Special Service 2
2018 · Jo Tae-ho
House with a Good View 2
House with a Good View 2
2015 · Gyeong Seok-Ho
Rebooted
Rebooted
2019 · Michael Shanks
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
David Fincher → United States

His films like Fight Club and The Game obsessively explore fractured identities and the duality of human consciousness through unreliable narrators and hidden character multiplicity.

Denis Villeneuve → Canada

Enemy is a masterwork on character duplication, presenting an existential exploration of doppelgängers and psychological doubling that questions the nature of self and identity.

Andrzej Żuławski → Poland

His surrealist and psychologically intense works like Possession feature characters that fragment and multiply psychologically, exploring obsession and the dissolution of singular identity.

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