It takes a long time to reach the point where the doppelganger makes his appearance and some viewers might already have been lost. Coen brothers like hints of what is to come have nevertheless been provided for you - it's almost necessary that this is the case as you would have no chance of making sense of the story otherwise. So, now that you're half way through, do you feel Simon's frustration? Wouldn't you have done something, something different to worshiping your visual double? So flattered are you by this new incarnation of your self you fail to stand up for yourself. Well, so it may be and that's a lesson for us all. Simon eventually works out how to resolve this tricky problem but not before accepting the truth about flattery.
Review of The Double
