I’m a sucker for doppelgänger stories with ironic twists — like Nabokov’s “Despair” [and the Fassbinder movie] — and “A Different Man” taps that vein.
I mostly enjoyed it, but it felt a bit thin for a ~2h feature film, and towards the end the tone slid from committed-to-its-premise to jokily perfunctory.
Greg Egan /
npub12c…gd38p
2024-11-10 07:33:56
Author Public Key
npub12cuzzqzv8e8y7na77a9zv47mx2v6pec60qs5h7takzmv5p0mw0fsmgd38pPublished at
2024-11-10 07:33:56Event JSON
{
"id": "9e9f930a628baa23b8493089c90c2fc5f67f77b930c5938900a0f4854893670b",
"pubkey": "563821004c3e4e4f4fbef74a2657db3299a0e71a78214bf97db0b6ca05fb73d3",
"created_at": 1731224036,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF/113457498473468817",
"web"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mathstodon.xyz/users/gregeganSF/statuses/113457498473468817",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://mathstodon.xyz/users/gregeganSF/statuses/113457498473468817",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "I’m a sucker for doppelgänger stories with ironic twists — like Nabokov’s “Despair” [and the Fassbinder movie] — and “A Different Man” taps that vein.\n\nI mostly enjoyed it, but it felt a bit thin for a ~2h feature film, and towards the end the tone slid from committed-to-its-premise to jokily perfunctory.",
"sig": "8e4e007e8c992e63fcaf6af003ebfacce1328b10141b7b6fcb9ddc6d6e735072043a9ab2b2feb7326ea4ca57d8c815e56d8bad449bdd659f5ce13de89022ed67"
}