The Double

[Murphy]

ah so it’s about The Substance

thank fuck it was free mubi trial, what a pile of wank

butts galore but what in the name of christos beast was it going for? Dorian G meets butts meets Altered States meets a dose of Shining carpets and butts, did I mention the butts?

never taking a rare film afternoon recommendation from a mate again, ps butts = 2 cheeks, double cuts in the butt stupid film and yes there’s a thread for film abortions but wtf fuck off absolutely annoying conjoined toss

 

[kid charlemagne]

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just now seeing this. fight club remains one of most important films. i watched a bunch of clips to feel better after bad days. there are also a lot of cool durden and fight club edits on youtube and instagram

 

[kid charlemagne]

Nico has a Doubles-themed dream screening series she's never gotten around to putting on, but it includes Vertigo obvi, and Body Double, but also Mulholland Drive, Skin I Live In, Basic Instinct, Birth, Show Girls, Silvia Prieto, Parent Trap, 3 Women, The Headless Woman

Been meaning to watch Silvia Prieto but she loves it. 3 Women is obviously a classic in this genre, but with triple (maiden, mother, crone) rather than double. Birth is fucking crazy lol

I think @william kent can vouch for this in some sense, even though he has not seen the film in years, but Abel Ferrara's The Blackout merits a mention imo. "Doubles" are not a major plot point in the film the way it is in some of the films listed above, but there is a key scene that uses a "double" and the merit here is less about the use of the double, but more about how eve the slight similarity in appearance can flip a switch in someone, especially if they are intoxicated.

 

[sus]

Change your hair change your life, as Sortilege says

 

[sus]

a forum member who's been in a dry spell lately dm'd this to me:

The right kind of sexual conquest can transform you into a different person. Make you into a Jekyll even. Turn you into a brute, an animal. You feel powerful for weeks afterward. You can smash anything if you feel like it

Girls pick up on it too they have a nose for it. You give off a scent if you've been fucking. Not last nights seminal mess. I mean hormonally. They can unconsciously detect it like how men can unconsciously tell when women are ovulating. There is a compound interest effect. The most important thing to break a dryspell is to secure a single conquest. Youve got to get the ball rolling. Youve got to become a brute

 

[version]

Glad Vim's still lurking.

 

[kid charlemagne]

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revisited this thread to post about possession and now im watching this vid and other tyler durden clips and reciting along to them.... seriously like the best film ever

 

[kid charlemagne]

anyways.....

rewatched Posession tonight.... An unhinged cathartic release of sexual repressed anger manifested through the supernatural, religious, and desolate streets of west Berlin....... i like a film that explicitly asks you not to try and follow any sort of logic, it almost feels like a film that was pieced together scene by scene as the production went along, and then of course for this thread, the film has its own underlying (or not so underlying) thread of doubles..... Adjani plays both the wife, and the school teacher, neither of whom Sam Neil can sexually pleasure, but the latter, one who he can find some comfort in.... then, there is a Sam Neil double revealed at the end... and it is basically the same case, the creature that Adjani finds sexual pleasure in, becomes a new Sam Neil in its finished product..... while the real Neil and Adjani perish in their own arms, the film ends with Neil's double finding Adjani's double, where they then watch the culmination of the cold war end in nuclear holocaust(?) im not sure exactly on the read of that final scene, but i do love how the film slides in the doubles, and then has them engulf the film as a whole at the end.....

 

[kid charlemagne]

 

[kid charlemagne]