Enemy is a film directed by directed denis villeneuve in 2013. The film fits into the genre of thriller and drama. The themes of the film are personality disorder, spiders and control. The film has an incredibly thought provoking narrative plot structure. The protagonist is played by jake gyllenhaal and is named adam and anthony.
My theory for the two characters looking exactly the same is that they are actually the same person. the first character is Anthony St.clare. St.clare in german means hypocrite. He second character is Adam Bell. The surname bell is an attention seeker, am exclamation mark to illustrate how something is wrong with him. Anthony's wife knows he has a split personality but plays along with it because she loves him and doesn't want to hurt him. The director has made it seem like these two character are two different people but with the exact same looks and physical attributes. The character Adam states in one of his lectures that he the first time a political event happens twice and how the second time it is a farce. The definition of Farce is an event or situation that is absurd or disorganised. My hypothesis is that adam is the farce. So the first one Anthony is the first event or situation (which goes well- evident that he is a actor with a beautiful wife and she's pregnant) and Adam is the second event or situation which is why he is neurotic and has a lower economical status- evident that he is a university professor.
Spiders are a visual metaphor for something which is important. There are four scenes with visible spiders in the film. One in the strip club, two is the woman in the hall way upside down, three is the giant spider which walks across Toronto and four is the giant spider at the end of the film. I believe that in the club at the beginning the men are not enjoying them selves and the woman on the table is not pleasuring her self but actually giving birth to a spider. When the spider appears everyone seems disappointed and disgusted. The second spider scene or sequence is P.O.V shot through Anthony's eyes. His inner troubles are reflected in the outside world. The third time the giant spider above the city walking, it is not real since there is no shots of people looking up above their heads reacting to it. The giant spider is a metaphor for something moving through the city. The final one is the scene where Adam walks in to his wife's room and there is a massive spider. Adam's face exhibites signs of disappointment. The same facial expression from the beginning of the film. This is because he knows he isn't Adam anymore, it is Anthony who sees the spider. The spider represents Anthony's sex drive. Anthony is the spider. Every time he gets excited the spider instinct kicks in. He sees spiders in the club with the women, His wife turns in to the spider when he looks at her and the woman walking down the hall way turns into a spider. Anthony is not resenting that he is a father and it's not the relationship which is suffocating him but it's the drive inside him which doesn't let him rest. He is disappointed that he cannot control his urge. But he wants to and this is why he creates a multiple personality which is a professor who teaches every thing about control and has a monotonous machine like life.
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