Reflection of the problems of the digital age in cinematic reflection: the image of the Double

Abstract

The article attempts to consider the relationship between the Self and the Double through the prism of modern cinema, which, being an integral part of the culture of the digital age, esthetically reveals the problem of the duality of the human Self. On the example of the film "The Enemy" by D. Villeneuve, we observe the process of splitting the subject, the meeting of a person with his double. It is assumed that digitalization makes it possible to consider the Cartesian conclusion about doubt in a new way. Doubt is an indicator of a failure in the measured existence of a person, causing a double to come to life, while the double, in turn, doubts you, emphasizing the presence of yourself and you, who gave birth to him. “I think, therefore, my twins exist” is a thesis that characterizes the modern digital reality in which a person resides due to the constant alienation of a part of his Self, his self-consciousness into virtuality.