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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

2/05/2011

Duplicity (2009)

There's this pretty woman -- and she's some kind of insider corporate mole chick. And there's this prettier man -- and he's some kind of inside-man corporate mole guy, but not as clever as she is. She beds him to steal a file and his feelings get all hurt. And then they start working together and become lovers and design some fierce "let's get rich by finding some corporate patsies" plan, but they can't really trust each other because they double-cross for a living and -- oh -- I'm tired.

The timeline isn't linear and I had a hard time keeping track of "when" we were and what I knew. I was often confused and never quite sure of who to trust...all of which would've been fine if I cared a fig about our devious couple. Since I didn't (I mean, this pair seemed more compatible in Closer, for crying out loud), I just became increasingly frustrated at the twists and turns and double-backs. I think the plot was convoluted enough without screwing around with the timeline.

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