Enemy

What made Denis Villeneuve's "Enemy" most interesting was that it didn't end how I expected it to. Throughout much of the movie I kept thinking "I know exactly where this is going," but it didn't go like that. It's not a great movie, but I thought that it was worth seeing. I saw a connection to Villeneuve's "Incendies", in which the son and daughter of an immigrant from an unidentified Arab country try to find out their family history and get an unpleasant surprise (I viewed the movie as a look at the roots of Arab Spring). The less said about Villeneuve's disgusting "Prisoners", the better.

So while it's not a masterpiece, it's still a fun, mind-bending movie. I've never read any of José Saramago's work but now I'd like to. Jake Gyllenhaal and Mélanie Laurent (Shoshana Dreyfuss in "Inglourious Basterds") have been making a lot of good movies.