In this era, the human race is constantly fighting with themselves. Not against each other necessarily, but more of a conflict within each individual. Reason being that most people are not pleased with their lives due to the lack of courage to do and say what they desire. “The Conflict we have with the outside world are often the conflict we have within ourselves.” – Bryant McGill Therefore, it is clearly apparent that the world around us greatly impacts how one feels, as does the inability to be what one longs to be. “The Double”, directed by Richard Ayoade, Is a film that revolves around Simon James, a man who is driven to breakdown when he comes across a look-alike in his job; the movie premiered in September 2013.This Film, with the uses …show more content…
The characters are what bring the elements in all those, they help portray whatever the writer desires them to depict. “The Double” presents the audience with two major character. There is Simon James, an office worker who isn’t really noticed at his work. Then there is James Simon, Simon’s look-alike who happens to be the polar opposite of Simon James. In the start of the movie we experiences Simon’s nature right away. In the train scene from the beginning of the film, it is displayed how timid, awkward and shy Simon can be. He was nearly left on the train due to him not being able to speak out to the men who were carrying the boxes through the exit of the train; While James was introduced to be rather confident. Forthwith, the viewers start to perceive how Simon envy’s the way James is, as he wishes to able to do what James is able to do. When they ordering to eat, the confidences that emitted from James struck Simons as surprising as he even states “I would have never done that” (Eisenberg). This exhibits the conflict that is already building up inside of Simon and his desire to be like James. Which leads to James helping Simon to be more like him. In Simon’s eyes, James is presented to be the man that he wants to be, performing actions he wish he could. He even states “I don't know how to be myself. It's like I'm permanently outside myself. Like, like you could push your hands straight through me if you wanted to. And I can see the type of man I want to be versus the type of man I actually am and I know that I'm doing it but I'm incapable of what needs to be done. I'm like Pinocchio, a wooden boy. Not a real boy. And it kills me” (Eisenberg). James only exist in Simon’s mind, like an alter-ego, which is why his coworkers aren’t able to see the resemblance between them. Everything that James did is Simon’s imagination showing what he wished he would have done. Eventually it becomes
He was offered a “Club cap” but James “gave it back” to his friend, Kris. They waited until Kris left the apartment building, then played a game of checkers. James had wanted to fit in with his friends in the “K-Bones” club but had realized that his brother was more important. He pushed his friend away to play games with Isaac. Furthermore, James has to “take care of” Isaac when his mother is at work. Even when he is trying to fit in with a devious club, he would still “hold Isaac’s hand” or even “carry him home”. James is a very nice and caring brother. This is logical because, that is what a good brother should look like. James must truly love Isaac as his brother, and admires his family more than his
On October 14th, 2016 in class we watched “Two Spirits” by Lydia Nibley. Basically the film explored the cultural context behind a tragic and senseless murder of the main character. Fred was part of an honored “Navajo” youth who was killed at the age of sixteen by a man who bragged to his friends that he was nothing but a “fag”. While walking home from a carnival he was chased by one of his friends. Once his friend caught up to Fred, he pulled him down from a mountain and smashed his head with a heavy rock. Fred laid there for five days straight where two young boys found his body lying there. He was labeled as a “two-spirit” who was possessed of balancing masculine and feminine traits. In the film, there are two parts that are put together effortlessly like the people it discusses. Most of the documentary focuses on Fred’s murder, but the real issues in the film were those of the lesbian, gay, and transgender community and how its members were viewed in a
As a boy, James questions his unique family and color through his confusion of race issues. Later in his life, as an adolescent, his racial perplexity results in James hiding from his emotions, relying only on the anger he felt against the world. It is only when James uncovers the past of his mother does he begin to understand the complexity of himself and form his own identity. As James matures, issues of race in his life become too apparent to ignore. His multiracial family provides no clear explanations on prejudices and racism, and when "[James] asked [Ruth] if she was white, she'd say, No. I'm light skinned and change the subject.
It causes a drift into their family and it influenced James from then on out. A few months after he died, everything changed. James writes, “She sent us off to school and tried to maintain her crazy house as usual, ranting about this and that, but the fire was gone. In the evening, she often sat at the kitchen table completely lost in thought” (137). When Ruth becomes lost in her own world, her behavior influences James. They both grieved for his death in different ways yet, his mothers grieve influenced him the most. Seeing her slowly fall apart was too much for James. He started skipping school, shoplifting, hanging with the wrong crowd, and he eventually became addicted to smoking reefer or drinking alcohol. Slowly, James is sinking into a hole he can't climb out of with all of his bad decisions. On an afternoon, after James nearly dies, he talks with chicken man, “Everybody on the corner is smart. You ain't no smarter than anybody here. If you so smart, why got to come on this corner every summer? ‘Cause you flunking school! You think if you drop out of school somebody's gonna beg you to g back? Hell no. They won't beg your black ass to go back. What makes you so special that they'll beg you! Who are you? You ain't nobody! If you want to drop out of school and shoot people ad hang on this corner all your life, go ahead, it's your life” (150). After James spoke with Chicken
Man may look and act a certain way on the outside but could be completely the opposite in actuality. The nature of man consists of sin, which is concealed by a mask of goodness and virtue. Society teaches humans to mask the evil tendencies we have and to only convey their angelic sides to the world. The doppelgangers that these characters carry with them do not stay tucked away forever; rather they slowly show themselves through their actions and the decisions that they make. The suppressed half is the gateway to understanding the entire person. Without the good part in people, there is no bad; without the evil, one can never fully know the person as a whole.
Jack from “Fight Club”, due to his apparent insomnia, which is actually implied to be a metaphor for the collective slumber of the post-feminism industrial male, spins his tale in a nearly half-awake stupor, always meandering through the plot thread by thread, as if he were waiting for his misery to all come to an end. On the other hand, William Wilson narrates his story as if he is not accepting of his role as the “original”, the source of his doppelganger. William Wilson voices his disbelief in the fact that his body double could be related to himself constantly, almost never accepting this possibility until it reaches its virtual tipping point. In this sense, the narrators of each story are almost exact opposites; Jack accepts his fate, while William Wilson wholeheartedly rejects it. It is this complete difference in philosophical beliefs that so clearly draws the line between the societies in both “William Wilson” and “Fight Club” were conceived and written
Sex, love, depression, guilt, trust, all are topics presented in this remarkably well written and performed drama. The Flick, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning drama by Annie Baker, serves to provide a social commentary which will leave the audience deep in thought well after the curtain closes. Emporia State Universities Production of this masterpiece was a masterpiece in itself, from the stunningly genuine portrayal of the characters of Avery and Rose, to the realism found within the set, every aspect of the production was superb.
...Narrator’s confusion and internal struggle within himself to try to understand what’s going on inside his head, why he has a dual personality, and how to destroy it. Depending on what the director wants to convey through the visuals of the movie and how he wants to portray the theme of duality through these visuals, the film will convey this message to the audience in this way. “These films show us that dualism is an inherent part of human existence. They illustrate that the good and the bad exist together, often times in one person or one place. People are complicated. It is not necessary to flatten one’s character into a single dimension in order to understand them. Rather, one needs only to understand that seemingly disparate qualities, be it good and bad or male and female, can exist together to create a complex dynamic in people’s psychology.” (Dualism in Film)
The film, Of Two Minds, is based on real life accounts of individuals living with bipolar disorder. Before watching this film, I had an idea of what bipolar disorder is , but after viewing this film I was completely mistaken. Previously, I thought being bipolar was going from a “normal” mood to an angry or sad mood in a matter of seconds and could be simply fixed by taking medicine. But my previous thoughts were completely wrong and bipolar disorder is very serious and complicated. I didn’t know the severity of this disease and I think a lot of the general public is uneducated about bipolar disorder as well as mental illness. Terri Cheney describes having bipolar disorder as, “Take the best day you ever had and multiply it by a million, it 's like a flu but one hundred times worse. It 's having flu in your mind."
One of the consequences of a lack of duality is the impossibility of the character to find stability and safety in the world. Man on the run is a specific attitude of the person who is not at ease with his surroundings. William Wilson undergoes a severe form of anxiety culminating in his traveling the world in order to escape the doppelganger. The fight in the end is like a duel in a mirror as the narrator sees his own dark self in front of him and realizes the darkness of his deeds. Double identity functions as projection of desires, guilt, and wishes on an exterior person considered responsible for the disease. Without harmony with this self, successful individuation is impossible, as Wilson discovers. The significance of the doppelganger
Personality is a branch of scientific discipline that studies temperament and its variation among people. It is a dynamic and a set of characteristics possessed by their atmosphere, cognitions, emotions, motivations and behaviours in various things. Personality conjointly refers to the pattern of thoughts, feelings, social adjustments and behaviour consistently exhibited over time that powerfully influences one’s exceptions, self-perceptions, values and attitudes. It also predicts human reactions to different folks, problems and stress.
However the film that will be discussed is "Black Swan” (2010) (refer to fig.4, 5, 6, 7 and 8). What is shown within this film is how it represents the concept of the ‘double’, bringing to light that the protagonist character’s doppelgänger is a part of them, initiating fear within
...r but Octavia tells him "You not a bum," she says. "You a man."(p.404) This is significant because it shows he is not seen as a young boy by his mother anymore, he is now seen as a man. We see the influence and change in James by all of the life lessons his mother instills in him, she tells him he needs to not cry, to be strong, and be able to stand alone symbolizes that he must be independent, he must also put others before himself and do things he may not like to do but must do as a necessity to live, such as killing the cardinal birds for supper. Helena also shows James that everything in life you must work for, that is why she tells him to take out the trash cans.
James was an authoritarian parent. He was controlling, in-charge and no one questioned him. He would play the role of the doting father. When his children made mistakes, he made a point to criticize them. He often compared them to other kids that he felt were “more perfect.” When his often unspoken expectations were not met he would yell and scream striking fear into his entire family. “He’s not a warm, fuzzy kind of guy, and he’s not going to inspire feelings of intimacy. But when his system works, he can boast about one thing: His recruits tend to obey” (Dewar).
James Vane - Sibyl’s brother, a sailor bound for Australia. James cares deeply for his sister and worries about her relationship with Dorian. Distrustful of his mother’s motives, he believes that Mrs. Vane’s interest in Dorian’s wealth disables her from properly protecting Sibyl. As a result, James is hesitant to leave his sister.