Timeline for Who is James in "The Double (2013)"?
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| Apr 29, 2019 at 7:48 | comment | added | hyperpallium | A literal interpretation is impossible, because we can't tell exactly which parts are real. Simon begins to change, to fake it til he makes it, but suffers from imposter syndrome and dissociates himself from the fake persona. Only sui/homi-cide can resolve it. Literal events: Simon did James' actions. He hallucinated James, and also hallucinated the reactions of others to James vs to himself. I think a key is the stranger who said "You're in my place" at the start, who spied on Hannah and later jumped - probably another doppleganger. | |
| Aug 16, 2015 at 11:35 | history | protected | Napoleon Wilson | ||
| Aug 16, 2015 at 9:17 | answer | added | user23984 | timeline score: -3 | |
| Aug 13, 2015 at 1:38 | answer | added | Marco Ciccarelli | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 16, 2015 at 5:48 | answer | added | Emma | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 2:05 | answer | added | luke | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 24, 2015 at 17:57 | answer | added | Ana | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 16:22 | answer | added | madeleine | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 12, 2015 at 6:49 | answer | added | user19580 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 1, 2015 at 11:51 | answer | added | Ariana Guerra | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 8, 2015 at 8:59 | answer | added | Mark | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 5, 2015 at 2:37 | answer | added | Martin | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 0:26 | answer | added | Emma | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 0:26 | answer | added | lifethinkist | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 13, 2014 at 1:24 | answer | added | Unknown | timeline score: -3 | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 22:32 | answer | added | shimel | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 3, 2014 at 8:16 | history | edited | Liath | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2014 at 7:40 | comment | added | user15612 | I'm with @mani......I'm quite confused. There is a scene in near the end where simon James goes nuts on his co workers and they call him Stanley. I thought would have turned out to be a compleletly different person at the end of the movie, someone who had wished to be the more exciting James Simon. Did anyone else catch that part? | |
| Oct 15, 2014 at 4:20 | answer | added | anonymous | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 1, 2014 at 16:42 | comment | added | arkon | @MANI ...but since we're seeing the events through the eyes of Simon, we have no way of knowing what's real. James could be a real person, whom Simon simply believes looks identical due to his delusional state. Or James could just be a schizophrenic illusion along with many of the events that take place. But maybe the whole film is metaphorical, and isn't intended to be taken literally. It's up to each viewer to decide for themselves. | |
| Oct 1, 2014 at 16:21 | comment | added | arkon | @MANI If the movie is literal, Simon suffers from a form of Monothematic delusion known as Subjective Doubles; a schizophrenic condition where the subject believes that there is one or more doppelgangers of himself, carrying out its own independent life. Him seeing a doppelganger of the security guard at the hospital is another Monothematic delusional state (there are several sub-categories of this affliction) where the subject perceives familiar things as being duplicated. | |
| S Aug 17, 2014 at 4:14 | history | bounty ended | ProPlayerMaxUltra | ||
| S Aug 17, 2014 at 4:14 | history | notice removed | ProPlayerMaxUltra | ||
| Aug 14, 2014 at 13:10 | vote | accept | ProPlayerMaxUltra | ||
| Aug 14, 2014 at 8:25 | comment | added | Flaunting | @MANI you have created an opinion based answer as the film is intentionally ambigous in not revealing whether he is real or not, to be true to the book. you basically need to pick your favourite answer | |
| Aug 13, 2014 at 10:01 | answer | added | Flaunting | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 16:31 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackMovies/status/499231663822749696 | ||
| Aug 12, 2014 at 15:37 | answer | added | Johnny Bones | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 15:14 | answer | added | Chann3rz | timeline score: 8 | |
| S Aug 12, 2014 at 14:45 | history | bounty started | ProPlayerMaxUltra | ||
| S Aug 12, 2014 at 14:45 | history | notice added | ProPlayerMaxUltra | Draw attention | |
| Aug 10, 2014 at 3:26 | comment | added | ProPlayerMaxUltra | Try to watch it today. Tell me if you understand anything. | |
| Aug 9, 2014 at 19:28 | comment | added | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 | Reading the IMDB synopsis, it looks like this is a Fight Club situation where the main character has a dual personality. I haven't seen the movie, so leaving this here as a comment ... yes ... strange. | |
| Aug 9, 2014 at 11:35 | history | edited | Napoleon Wilson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 9, 2014 at 10:21 | history | asked | ProPlayerMaxUltra | CC BY-SA 3.0 |