{"id":1143933,"date":"2026-02-06T12:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=536021"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:22:14","slug":"mickey-17-belongs-to-a-particularly-weird-subgenre-doppelganger-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/mickey-17-belongs-to-a-particularly-weird-subgenre-doppelganger-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey 17 belongs to a particularly weird subgenre: doppelg\u00e4nger movies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bong Joon Ho\u2019s latest movie, Mickey 17<\/em><\/a>, is a lot of things. It\u2019s a story about work, cloning, colonization, inequality, first contact, and the evils of capitalism. It\u2019s a satire, a slapstick comedy, and a sci-fi epic. It also belongs to one of the rarest and strangest subgenres of film: doppelg\u00e4nger movies.<\/p>\n

Robert Pattinson plays Mickey, who signs himself up to be an \u201cexpendable\u201d on an expedition to colonize an alien planet. This means that, if he dies, the expedition science team can simply print out another one of him and download his consciousness into it. (In a touch of director Bong\u2019s signature visual wit, his consciousness is stored in an old brick.) When the 17th Mickey survives what seemed like certain death, he finds himself living alongside Mickey 18 \u2014 but duplicates are strictly forbidden. Hijinks ensue.<\/p>\n

It is the law of doppelg\u00e4nger movies that the doubles must be inverses of each other, personality-wise \u2014 partly as a showcase for the actor doing double duty, partly to make them easier for audiences to tell them apart, and partly to evoke the duality of identity, of ego and id. Pattinson does a superb job contrasting Mickey 17, a hesitant doormat with a wheedling voice, with the more strident Mickey 18; it\u2019s never confusing which is which. It is also the law that these identical doubles must become locked in a dark dance with each other as they attempt to consume, assimilate, or otherwise overtake each other. Usually there\u2019s an unwitting sexual or romantic partner entangled. This contest is sometimes resolved well, but usually not. Mickey 17 <\/em>obeys all these rules.<\/p>\n

As familiar as its tropes may seem, a true doppelg\u00e4nger movie is a pretty rare find. They are a subset, or cousin, of a more popular form: the identical twin movie. An identical twin movie isn\u2019t necessarily a doppelg\u00e4nger movie, dealing with the fundamental premise of one identity split in two \u2014 although it can be. Dead Ringers<\/em> and Adaptation <\/em>are doppelg\u00e4nger movies, but Legend <\/em>and The Parent Trap<\/em> are not. Those are just movies with identical twins in them.<\/p>\n

Doppelg\u00e4nger movies are often psychological thrillers, but in fact, they can be spliced with almost any genre: action, comedy, even romance. Here are some of our favorites.<\/p>\n

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Enemy<\/h2>\n

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Where to watch: <\/strong>Free with ads on Pluto TV, or for digital rental\/purchase on Amazon, Apple TV<\/p>\n

Denis Villeneuve\u2019s last truly Canadian film arrived in 2013 sandwiched between his first two Hollywood pictures, Prisoners<\/em> and Sicario<\/em>, and was rather overlooked. It\u2019s an oblique, compelling story in which Jake Gyllenhaal, a mild-mannered, mopey history teacher, spots someone who looks exactly like him playing a bit part in a film, and tracks him down. Other Jake is, of course, more confident and doesn\u2019t have Jake 1\u2019s commitment issues; their meeting proves to be a disastrous mistake. Or does it? Enemy<\/em> is haunting and thought-provoking without being overdetermined, it looks unreal \u2014 Villeneuve shoots Toronto like a sepia wasteland of alienation \u2014 and it has one of the most WTF endings ever.<\/p>\n

Dead Ringers<\/h2>\n

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Where to watch: <\/strong>Prime Video, Peacock, free with a library card on Hoopla and Kanopy, free with ads on Pluto TV<\/p>\n

Although spliced with the identical twin genre, David Cronenberg\u2019s utterly chilling 1988 masterpiece Dead Ringers<\/em> might still be the archetypal doppelg\u00e4nger movie. Jeremy Irons plays Beverly and Elliot Mantle, twin gynecologists who regularly swap lives and identities like it\u2019s no big thing, but who descend into a spiral of madness and addiction when shy Beverly falls in love with a patient (Genevi\u00e8ve Bujold) who has two wombs. Cronenberg\u2019s usual body horror is sublimated in the details of this relatively tame but still deeply disturbing and devastating film, and Irons is flat-out incredible in it.<\/p>\n

Moon<\/h2>\n

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Where to watch: <\/strong>For digital rental\/purchase on Amazon, Apple TV<\/p>\n

Like Enemy<\/em>, Duncan Jones\u2019 2009 debut Moon <\/em>is a film about how disturbing it would be to discover you had a doppelg\u00e4nger, and like Mickey 17<\/em>, it\u2019s a sci-fi cautionary tale about cloning and the cheapness of human life. Sam Rockwell is a solitary lunar miner who awakens after an accident, only to discover himself, still lying unconscious at the accident site. It turns out they\u2019re both clones. It\u2019s a rare example of a doppelg\u00e4nger movie where the doubles work together to uncover a larger mystery, but it\u2019s still unsettling, and its location \u2014 the dark side of the moon \u2014 is ripe with the eeriness and symbolism the genre thrives on.<\/p>\n

The One<\/h2>\n

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Where to watch: <\/strong>For free with a library card on Hoopla, or for digital rental\/purchase on Amazon, Apple TV<\/p>\n

And now for something completely different. Normally, a doppelg\u00e4nger movie is about two doubles trying to destroy each other. This 2001 Jet Li movie is about one evil doppelg\u00e4nger trying to destroy all the other versions of himself across the multiverse, and another good one trying to stop him. It\u2019s a dumb, post-Matrix<\/em> bit of high-concept action \u2014 or, alternatively, a popcorn precursor to Everything Everywhere All at Once<\/em>. It\u2019s not as thoughtful about doppelg\u00e4ngers as the other movies on this list, honestly, but there aren\u2019t many doppelg\u00e4nger movies where you get to watch Jet Li doubles do kung fu on each other (or Jason Statham have hair!), so it gets in.<\/p>\n

The Double<\/h2>\n

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Where to watch: <\/strong>Prime Video, free with a library card on Hoopla, free with ads on Pluto TV<\/p>\n

Richard Ayoade\u2019s black comedy from 2013 (a good doppelg\u00e4nger year), starring Jesse Eisenberg, is a modernized adaptation of the urtext of all doppelg\u00e4nger fiction: Fyodor Dostoyevsky\u2019s 1846 novella. (For more literary doppelg\u00e4ngers with even greater existential angst, try Vladimir Nabokov\u2019s Despair<\/em>.) Eisenberg is the office worker whose life is upended by a more confident doppelg\u00e4nger, only nobody else can see the resemblance. Ayoade maybe leans a little too hard on the Kafkaesque visuals, but his lighter comic sensibility is a welcome take on this often dark subject matter.<\/p>\n

Us<\/h2>\n

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Where to watch: <\/strong>For digital rental\/purchase on Amazon, Apple TV<\/p>\n

Jordan Peele\u2019s 2019 follow-up to Get Out<\/em> is probably the best exploitation of doppelg\u00e4ngers for pure horror. Lupita Nyong\u2019o and her family are terrorized by doppelg\u00e4ngers of themselves on vacation; this is potent enough imagery as it is, but it turns out Peele has something even grander and darker in mind. After the wickedly pointed Get Out<\/em>, some felt Us<\/em> was too psychologically diffuse and elusive to land the same way, but that, surely, is the point. Ambiguity and doppelg\u00e4nger movies go hand in hand.<\/p>\n

Honorable mentions<\/h2>\n

John Woo\u2019s Face\/Off<\/em>, in which John Travolta and Nicolas Cage swap faces, is technically not a doppelg\u00e4nger movie, but it hits so many of the genre\u2019s themes, and is so extravagantly entertaining, it\u2019s surely allowed in the canon. Ditto A Different Man<\/em><\/a>, the 2024 dramedy in which Sebastian Stan receives a miracle cure for his facial disfigurement but then has his life overtaken by Adam Pearson, who looks something like his old self. And in Black Swan<\/em>, Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis don\u2019t look exactly alike, but Dostoyevsky\u2019s theme of duality \u2014 and story of an impostor assuming the protagonist\u2019s life \u2014 are fully explored.<\/p>\n

For some other genre flavors within doppelg\u00e4nger world, try Bill and Ted\u2019s Bogus Journey<\/em>, a broad comedy in which the excellent duo must battle evil robot versions of themselves, or The One I Love<\/em>, which gives the typical low-key Sundance relationship drama a wicked doppelg\u00e4nger twist. There are some smart sci-fi twists on the concept embedded in Dual<\/em> (obviously) and Annihilation<\/em> (more obscurely). And, returning to Cronenberg-adjacent territory: Does iconic 1980s horror Possession <\/em>count as a doppelg\u00e4nger movie? I\u2019m not sure. I\u2019m in two minds.<\/p>\n

Where to watch: <\/strong>Face\/Off <\/em>is streaming on Paramount Plus, or free with a library card on Hoopla. A Different Man <\/em>is streaming on Max. Black Swan <\/em>is streaming on Max. Bill and Ted\u2019s Bogus Journey <\/em>is streaming for free on Prime Video with ads. The One I Love <\/em>is streaming for free with a library card on Hoopla, or for free with ads on Plex. Dual <\/em>is streaming on AMC Plus, or for free with a library card on Hoopla. Annihilation <\/em>is streaming on Paramount Plus. Possession <\/em>is streaming on Shudder, Metrograph at Home, and for free with a library card on Kanopy and Hoopla. All of these movies are available for digital rental or purchase on Amazon and Apple TV.<\/p>\n

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Bong Joon Ho\u2019s latest movie, Mickey 17, is a lot of things. It\u2019s a story about work, cloning, colonization, inequality, first contact, and the evils of capitalism. It\u2019s a satire, a slapstick comedy, and a sci-fi epic. It also belongs to one of the rarest and strangest subgenres of film: doppelg\u00e4nger movies. Robert Pattinson plays Mickey, who signs himself up to be an \u201cexpendable\u201d on an expedition to colonize an alien planet. This means that, if he dies, the expedition science team can simply print out another one of him and download his consciousness into it. (In a touch of director Bong\u2019s signature visual wit, his consciousness is stored in an old brick.) When the 17th Mickey survives what seemed like certain death, he finds…<\/p>\n

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