The Double Analysis: Balancing Death and Transformation 

Excellent analysis. After I watched this film I was pretty confused but your review of its themes and motifs showed me how brilliant Double is! Keep it up!

Is it just me or did this movie get completely looked over?

Anyone have thoughts on the Guard also being the Doctor that tells Simon about the miscarriage?

Fantastic video! Keep it up!

Has anyone seen Triangle movie? I have a teory where it might been quite the same case: Like some sort of sysiphus purgatory he sees his own suicide at the beginning and that's where it ends even though he dies in diferent circumstances like in Triangle but he does speaks to Hanna before he dies, she's angry at him and confronting him the night before (like the first unknown guy)

Awesome Interpretation! You definitely answered many questions. Even tho still a lot remain... The movie is so vasttt. Its almost a masterpiece

great interpretation, so many little details i haven't known about until now thanks to you

Excellent ! Best breakdown I've seen

You connected dots i did not, but it makes sense! great job here!!

Love this video. Thank you

what an interesting analysis! great video :) i didn't even realize it all took place at night haha

Thank you so much for your analysis! It is very interessant! I'm working on a vide analysis too, but in french :-) So i was looking for others people explanation and yours was awesome. Thanks again!

Very nicely done! 👍

I feel like James and Simon started to connect as one , and Simon knew this when he punched James at the funeral and simons noes started to bleed, but he had not been hit, so Simon handcuffed him to the bed and took his keys cause he had a plan to get rid of James, so he called the ambulance and told them to come ASAP then cut his face so that James could feel it too, she when he jumped on the bouncy thing that they had said if you land on it you might survive so he jumped got his head bleeding and James felt it too but instead of get help he died cause he bled out

Wonderful explanation

Great job! Thank you

Its really good explanation

Awesome video, definitely supported my theory. First time watching this movie but my theory is, that Simon just creates a new version of himself, which behaves completely different than he does to get closer to Hannah. The thing, that still confuses me the most is the hospital scene(where Hannah tried to kill herself), in which Hannah is referred to as his wife. Also they speak about "fighting". Im not sure, if scene happens in Simons mind or is real, if it is real, the whole creating James thing can be seen as the story of how he got close to Hannah. But if this is true, it would be important to know if Simon really cheated on Hannah, because if he did, it wouldn't really make sense, that Hannah got his wife afterwards. But if the hospital scene happens in Simons mind, I can't find an explanation for its existence in the movie. Also why was his face full of blood and why did Hannah try to kill herself? The film leaves so much questions open for me, I will definitely have to watch it a second time. I hope, that you can maybe help me out :P

One critique, when describing the death at the beginning of the movie you say that it links with Simon’s fall because the suicide guys say exactly what Simon ends up doing but actually they were stating IF the man fell on the protection canopy thingy, he would not have died but instead be morbidly impaired.

Thank u for this explanation, I was confused. I thought he was in a psychiatric hospital all along suffering from split personality and that Hanna was a nurse and the General his doctor.

thanks for explaining the movie.

Hey, this is not bad, especially since you haven't read much of the book and surrounding literature. I must interject though, the main theme is shadow integration. It's Dostoyevsky's life's work. It's not about as you said "birthing something that can kill you", it's about integrating the parts of yourself that would otherwise consume and kill you. Simon is a figment of James imagination, the ideal, the shadow. He is dark, assertive and disagreeable and everything James aspires to be.

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Thank you

Ty ❤

Awesome

I think we all kill off parts of ourselves and I mean identities that we once had. We change ourselves because we want to appease the people around us. How much is too much? That’s for you to decide and all the factors in your life should be put into consideration. Change is good it’s necessary for evolution to occur. As time goes on you need to keep up with your current situation. Change is a necessary good but it can also be bad if you make it bad. You have to constantly ask yourself throughout your life. Who you want to be, and why you want to be that person? After watching this movie everyone should ask themselves that?

Hi Calypso . Is it possible to request an Analysis of "Dark City" 1998" or "13th Floor"1999 ? Thank You.

Hello, I just watched the movie. Masterpiece is an understatement word to describe the movie. It was perplexedly beautiful... I love all your analysis, but what are your thoughts about the miscarriage? I would like to share some of my thoughts. The miscarriage of Hannah, I'm connecting it with the blood of Hannah that she's printing on the window. I also thought that Hannah and Simon are couple, where Simon's evil alter-ego James has been cheating on her. That's why they have been fighting. But Simon was so confused and overwhelmed with everything that he doesn't know what to be the person exactly but he was trying to amend everything which action symbolizes the pieces of papers that Simon has been collecting in the trash and putting it back into pieces again. I have many other thoughts. I didn't know if I made sense with my words above. I just want to express myself right now and there are too many things that I can't put into words... But really thank you.

Great

Watching your analysis is making me realize how Lynch-esque this movie is

6.34 J Mascis! Another great analysis, Calypso. I haven't seen this film yet but read the novel a long time ago. Fun fact: Director Richard Ayoade is one of the funniest people on the planet. Yes, this is an iron-clad objective fact...

Lol the real movie is life and Jesse Eisenburg is the doppelganger of Michael Cera.

What's with all the hints of substance abuse at the end?

HMMM!???

Great video, but I had a hard time hearing you, even with my volume all the way up

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You’re gorgeous

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