Clickonline writes: "The Double definitely pitches itself towards comedy though there's likely to be plenty of darker material on show. And its technically a take on a story by Dostoyevsky but you don't need to know that to enjoy it."
Despite serving up plum roles for a pair of contemporary stars and coming from one of the most promising filmmakers of the moment, there’s something delightfully old fashioned about writer/director Richard Ayoade’s The Double. It’s one of those identity crisis existential horror/sci-fi movies that were all the rage in the heady art cinema days of the 60s.
In Hollywood, twins are bad news. No, that isn't meant as a knock against Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (or Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, for that matter) — it's a reference to films like Dead Ringers and Enemy, which have shown us that anytime exact human facsimiles are involved, trouble ensues and bloodshed follows. Of course, this notion extends even farther back, to Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1846 novella, The Double. And it's in that tale that the second film from director Richard Ayoade finds its basis, taking a tale of existential identity crisis and crafting a dark comedy out of it.
The Double is a comedy film Directed by Richard Ayoade released in 2013. This movie is based on the Novel “The Double” written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It’s story is about a person who is driven nearly to breakdown after finding out his life has been usurped by a doppelganger. This is short scene from the movie.
