The Double (2014)

Simon James is a sad sack who generally goes unnoticed; even the security guard at his work can never remember that he's a long-time employee. But then his impressive and impossible-to-ignore doppelgänger James Simon gets hired on and things start to change. At first possibilities seem to open in ways they hadn't before, but then things go off the rails -- like when James starts taking credit for Simon's work and begins wooing the girl of Simon's dreams.

This is one of those movies where everything is deliberately depressing. It's set in a grey future of constant loneliness. But why? The storyline would've been at least as interesting in a bright office with a mix of happy, scared, inefficient, overachieving, kind and cruel denizens AND it probably wouldn't have taken me more than a week to finish. This needed some relief from the aggressive grimness.

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