2022 · sci-fi · comedy · drama
Dual
Directed by Riley Stearns1h 35m2022
A terminally ill woman opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss on her friends and family. When she makes a miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death.
Our read: Dual (2022) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive sci-fi · comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured sci-fi / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
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