Originally premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival in the U. S. Dramatic Competition selection.
Dual is directed by Riley Stearns and it is a story about in the near future, a woman named Sara hears that she is terminally ill. To save her family from the pain of losing her, she opts for a cloning procedure of herself and trains the clone to feel like her. However, Sara makes a miraculous recovery, which drives her to a new problem: in the society of the future, humans cannot exist for longer than the time limit of their clones. By law, Sara and her clone must eventually fight each other to the death. Stearns' previous movies haven't really impressed me as much but after watching this one, this may be my favorite of his work so far.
Starring Karen Gillan and Aaron Paul. The movie is overall really interesting and weird at the same time. The humor elements worked pretty well with the dry tone. All the performances were pretty good. Some may complain that the performance looked wooden but I feel like that was the point of the movie's weirdness it was trying to point out. The production design, camerawork and sound effects are really good throughout. Gillan is a good actress when she isn't in the Marvel movies or big budget type of productions. Paul is great as usual but it's weird not seeing him as Todd Chavez after being a big fan of Bojack Horseman lol. Also, Theo James was good in this movie even if he wasn't in a big role.
There are problems with the movie as some aspects of the narrative could be improved. The characters at times felt a little unreal given the situation they are in. Some reactions based on the character felt unnatural or kind of fake at times. The movie has been said it is also a satire but I never really got to understand what is the point of trying to say it is a satire. Because if it was a satire, it didn't really work out well. Like if there was no satire at all.
Overall, it is an interesting movie. A little predictable at times but I was still able to be engaged with this. It will cause people to be very mixed as there are a lot of answers that are left unknown or strange things that aren't explained properly. Leaves you thinking about it more.
Rating: B+
Dual is directed by Riley Stearns and it is a story about in the near future, a woman named Sara hears that she is terminally ill. To save her family from the pain of losing her, she opts for a cloning procedure of herself and trains the clone to feel like her. However, Sara makes a miraculous recovery, which drives her to a new problem: in the society of the future, humans cannot exist for longer than the time limit of their clones. By law, Sara and her clone must eventually fight each other to the death. Stearns' previous movies haven't really impressed me as much but after watching this one, this may be my favorite of his work so far.
Starring Karen Gillan and Aaron Paul. The movie is overall really interesting and weird at the same time. The humor elements worked pretty well with the dry tone. All the performances were pretty good. Some may complain that the performance looked wooden but I feel like that was the point of the movie's weirdness it was trying to point out. The production design, camerawork and sound effects are really good throughout. Gillan is a good actress when she isn't in the Marvel movies or big budget type of productions. Paul is great as usual but it's weird not seeing him as Todd Chavez after being a big fan of Bojack Horseman lol. Also, Theo James was good in this movie even if he wasn't in a big role.
There are problems with the movie as some aspects of the narrative could be improved. The characters at times felt a little unreal given the situation they are in. Some reactions based on the character felt unnatural or kind of fake at times. The movie has been said it is also a satire but I never really got to understand what is the point of trying to say it is a satire. Because if it was a satire, it didn't really work out well. Like if there was no satire at all.
Overall, it is an interesting movie. A little predictable at times but I was still able to be engaged with this. It will cause people to be very mixed as there are a lot of answers that are left unknown or strange things that aren't explained properly. Leaves you thinking about it more.
Rating: B+