"Enemy" is a movie by Denis Villeneuve based on “Homem Duplicado” (direct translation: Duplicate Man) by José Saramago.
Adam Bell is a Toronto area History college professor. He is a rather somber man, largely because he is stuck in a routine, which includes a relationship with his live-in girlfriend, Mary. While watching a rental movie, he spots an actor in a bit part that looks like him. He becomes obsessed with finding out about this double of his. He learns that the actor’s stage name is Daniel Saint Claire, whose legal name is Anthony Claire. Claire is a Toronto based actor with only a few on-screen credits, and is married to a woman named Helen who is currently several months pregnant. Adam then becomes obsessed with meeting Claire, who he learns upon first sighting that they look exactly the same, from the facial hair to a scar each has, but Claire who outwardly is more “put together” than Adam. Their lives become intertwined as Claire himself ends up becoming obsessed with Adam, but in a slightly different way.
This movie fascinated me because it's open to interpretation and there are several theories about it: Are they the same man? Are they two different people? Is it a portrait of some kind of bipolar disorder?
The film is full with symbologies, and I used them in the process of designing this magazine. The idea of duplication and reflexion is present along the pages: starting in the cover, and culminating in the middle pages. To give it a (literal) twist, each half of the magazine is with the opposite vertical orientation from the other one - once you reach the middle pages, you should turn it over to continue to read.
Magazine | 2014 | 20 x 20 cm
Academic work
