Hello and welcome back to Thursday Movie Picks, the weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves where you share three movies to fit the theme of the week each Thursday.
As you can tell by the title, this is a pretty confusing week. With clones and doppelgangers everywhere how do you even know who's the person you are really looking for? Am I right? Here are my picks for the week
Enemy (2013)
While watching a film, a college professor spots an actor that looks just like him and soon becomes obsessed with finding out more about his doppelgangers. This is a sensational and quite disturbing thriller that deals with some pretty deep themes such as living under a totalitarian state without knowing it and characters rebelling against their creators, and there's a fantastic performance from Jake Gyllenhaal.
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Because of Cecilia watching the same movie over and over again at the theatre, a minor character in the movie literally walks off the screen to join her and explore the world outside the screen. The actor isn't that happy though since there's a guy who looks like him and does dumb things. This is one of my favourite movies from Allen because he mixes reality and fiction beautifully and makes you think about the relationship we have with art.
The World's End (2013)
Gary convinces his childhood friends to stage an encore and take part in a pub marathon to reconcile past and present. However, they soon find out that future is what they should be worried about since everyone in their city is being replaced with robotic clones. This film is the kind of ending every trilogy deserves, it's brilliant, funny and also criticise our society where the job always comes first.
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