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I really hate it when people rate a movie without actually watching it.


Perhaps they should ask 5 trivia questions about the movie before allowing you to vote, my guess is if that was the policy the current rating of this movie would be a hell of a lot higher. I'm not saying a 10 or even an 8, but at least in the 6's. To Rate this movie a 4 is just plain wrong.

I think the Time article on this movie sums it up best...

He’s got jet-black hair, a booming voice and a Graceland-like estate — but Drexel Hemsley, the fictional rock-and-roll star in The Identical, is no Elvis Presley. Rather, the film takes a footnote from Presley’s biography — that he had an identical twin who died at birth — and turns it into the movie’s central hypothetical: While Drexel becomes a national celebrity, what if an unknown but equally talented twin were also trying to make his own way in the world?

It's just sad that so many people that never saw the movie rate it down for all the wrong reasons.

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My wife and I really enjoyed it. I am a sucker for existential movies. I think I will be coming back to this one.

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You don't know the definition of the word 'existential' do you?

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I'll let someone else explain...

An existential movie is one that deals with a world and/or a life that is devoid of any preordained meaning, rules, or justice. It often deals with a confusing struggle to find personal meaning in an absurd world that presents no trace of it on its own. These are movies where we are forced to look at life and see that we have a choice to embrace truth and make our own choices according to our own conscious free will, or perhaps take the easier route and let the establishment of our society around us dictate our brief existence for us. Or, perhaps we don’t have a choice, but we are forced to become painfully aware of this futility. The only choice would be to embrace this truth and have a laugh at the absurdity of it all.

In a nutshell, existential movies are about meaning (or lack of it) in life in an absurd and indifferent universe, and the search for and creation of that meaning and personal freedom (or not) in this existence that we all find ourselves in together.

http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/20-great-existential-films-you-need-to-watch/

films that study the nature of existence and what it means to be alive. It's debatable as to what defines the 'quintessential' existential movie, but ultimately it must speak to the human condition and reframe it in such a way that the viewer gains an enhanced appreciation of their own existence and situation in life. These are the kinds of films that you find yourself reflecting back upon time and time again as you engage in your own day-to-day life, struggles and relationships.

http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2009/06/top-10-existential-movies-of-all-time.html

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In the words of The Cinema Snob, who just reviewed this movie, "Well, then you would HATE the makers of this movie. 😀"

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