Dual Review
Existential dread is a powerful thing. The fear of being forgotten or simply dying is a human condition that plagues most of us, especially when reaching a certain age where we all start tumbling downhill in health. The insecurities of being seen, desired or desiring relevance compound for some at a certain age. With Dual, director Riley Stearns (The Art of Self Defense) has channeled these daunting insecurities in a dark comedy that confronts these issues.
Dual shares commonalities with films like Pixar's Soul in that it holds a mirror to our own mortality, no matter how uncomfortable the reflection. Only here Stearns has added an extra flavor of anxiety to this issue, And that ingredient is the fear of being replaced after our departure. The themes might be serious and grim but they are handled in a surprisingly comedic way. Although, not everyone will be laughing at the joke.
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The film stars Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy) as Sarah, a lonely woman living a very complicated existence. Sarah spends her days eating horribly on a diet of fast food and alcohol. She longs for the attention of her boyfriend Peter (Beulah Koale) who communicates with her through video calls and seems to be avoiding returning home purposely. Sarah comes across as lonely but also completely void of any emotion. But her feelings are conveyed through the life choices she makes in drinking and diet. Whether she is purposely numb or numb by nature is not exactly clear at first.
After a lonely night of drinking, Sarah wakes up to a concerning amount of blood on her pillow, seemingly from vomiting while she was asleep. This event takes her to the emergency room to be seen for the
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