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* CloneAngst: Only one is allowed to be Sarah. The other must die.
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* CloningBlues: Only one is allowed to be Sarah. The other must die.
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* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:Sarah herself]] could be considered one from [[spoiler:the clone's]] perspective as, [[spoiler:despite all the training she does throughout the movie, she is eventually poisoned before the clone duel even begins.]]
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* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:Sarah herself]] could be considered one from [[spoiler:the clone's]] perspective as, [[spoiler:despite all the training she does throughout the movie, she is eventually poisoned before the clone duel even begins.]]
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* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:Despite the build up throughout the film, Sarah and her clone never actually fight the official duel as Sarah's clone tricks her into drinking poison. The limp that the double walks out of the forest may suggest that there was a scuffle of some kind after Sarah realised what was happening but nothing is ever confirmed.]]
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's never made clear where Sarah lives. She has an American accent and uses American money, but many other characters have British, Australian, or German accents. The license plates are generic white and have European dimensions. The final scene takes place at a traffic circle, which are rare in America. The film was filmed in Finland.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's never made clear where Sarah lives. She has an American accent and uses American money, but many other characters have British, Australian, or German accents. The license plates are generic white and have European dimensions. The final scene takes place at a traffic circle, which are rare in America. The film was filmed shot in Finland.
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* ActionPrologue: We start with a dual between two men who have no further role in the story.
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* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Sarah is clearly somewhat intimidated by her double, who has fewer physical flaws than her and seems to generally more suited to living her life than she is herself. Then it's revealed that her double has already been taking over aspects of her life while she's still alive, such as going out with her boyfriend and visiting her mother.
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* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Sarah is clearly somewhat intimidated by her double, who has fewer physical flaws than her and seems to be generally more suited to living her life than she is herself. Then it's revealed that her double has already been taking over aspects of her life while she's still alive, such as going out with her boyfriend and visiting her mother.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Sarah is introduced ordering a large amount of Mexican food, drinking alone, and then getting ready to masturbating to porn before taking a call from her boyfriend and lying about, showing her rather dreary life.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Sarah is introduced ordering a large amount of Mexican food, drinking alone, and then getting ready to masturbating masturbate to porn before taking a call from her boyfriend and lying about, about her activities, showing her rather dreary life.life and strained relationship.
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''Dual'' is a 2022 dark comedy written, directed and produced by Creator/RileyStearns, (''Film/{{Faults}}'', ''Film/TheArtOfSelfDefense'').
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''Dual'' is a 2022 dark comedy written, directed and produced by Creator/RileyStearns, Riley Stearns, (''Film/{{Faults}}'', ''Film/TheArtOfSelfDefense'').
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''Dual'' is a 2022 dark comedy written, directed and produced by Creator/RileyStearns, of ''Film/{{Faults}}'' and ''Film/TheArtOfSelfDefence'' fame.
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''Dual'' is a 2022 dark comedy written, directed and produced by Creator/RileyStearns, of ''Film/{{Faults}}'' and ''Film/TheArtOfSelfDefence'' fame.
(''Film/{{Faults}}'', ''Film/TheArtOfSelfDefense'').
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''Dual'' is a 2022 dark comedy written, directed and produced by Creator/RileyStearns.
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''Dual'' is a 2022 dark comedy written, directed and produced by Creator/RileyStearns.
Creator/RileyStearns, of ''Film/{{Faults}}'' and ''Film/TheArtOfSelfDefence'' fame.
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* TwentyMinutesInTheFuture: Everything about the world is the same, except there's now a service that creates identical clones of people, whipping them up in under an hour. There's also a 28th amendment dealing with clone rights.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Sarah's Double kills Sarah through treachery with the help of Sarah's former loved ones, yet her life falls into the exact same disrepair that Sarah's did]].
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Sarah's Double kills Sarah through treachery with the help of Sarah's former loved ones, yet her life falls into the exact same disrepair that Sarah's did]].did, only now she's got a limp, doesn't know how to drive, and needs to buy contact lenses to hide her identity]].
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* KillAndReplace: Doubles are allowed to petition to survive, in which case they're allowed to duel the original to the death for an opportunity to kill them and take their place.
* MuggedForDisguise: [[spoiler:Sarah's double wears Sarah's clothes to the duel to pass herself off as Sarah, even though no one saw what Sarah was wearing that day. It's purely to temporarily confuse the audience]].
* NeverGivenAName: Sarah's clone is only ever called "Sarah's Double," since she's not supposed to have an identity of her own. The two must ultimately fight over the right to be the real Sarah.
* NoodleIncident: We don't see what happens after [[spoiler:Sarah realizes that she's been poisoned]]. However, when Sarah's Double emerges from the forest, she's got an unexplained limp that stays with her into the epilogue that happens some months later.
* MuggedForDisguise: [[spoiler:Sarah's double wears Sarah's clothes to the duel to pass herself off as Sarah, even though no one saw what Sarah was wearing that day. It's purely to temporarily confuse the audience]].
* NeverGivenAName: Sarah's clone is only ever called "Sarah's Double," since she's not supposed to have an identity of her own. The two must ultimately fight over the right to be the real Sarah.
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''Dual'' is a 2022 dark comedy written, directed and produced by Creator/RileyStearns.
Creator/KarenGillan stars as Sarah, a depressed alcoholic who learns that she's terminally ill and opts to have a clone made of her to act as her replacement when she's gone. But when she goes into remission, she must fight her clone to the death over right to be the only Sarah. Creator/AaronPaul plays a martial arts instructor she turns to for training.
Not to be confused with ''Film/{{Duel}}''.
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* AccentsArentHereditary: In keeping with the WhereTheHellIsSpringfield ambiance, Sarah runs across twins with thick British accents, but their mother has an American accent.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Sarah runs across young identical twin girls who help her reconcile with her own identical double.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Sarah's terminal stomach illness, which makes her occasionally vomit blood but has no other symptoms and then just randomly goes into remission, is not based on any real-world illness.
* BaitAndSwitch:
** Sarah wakes up with a pool of red liquid covering her pillow and bedspread, implying that she coughed up blood in the night. Then the camera pans over to a half-empty bottle of red whiskey, implying that she just vomited in her sleep after overdrinking. Then she goes to the ER and vomits up blood, revealing that she ''does'' have some sort of illness.
** Trent says that he's willing to accept a mutually beneficial trade in lieu of payment. When Sarah takes him up on this mysterious offer, she arrives at his dojo, they both begin taking off their clothes... and then [[spoiler:she teaches him hip-hop dance]].
* ChekhovsSkill: Sarah exercises in part by taking hip-hop dance classes. She later uses her knowledge to [[spoiler:give Trent a hip-hop dance lesson to pay for her final month of martial arts training]].
* ColorCodedEyes: Sarah's Double is identical to Sarah except for her blue eyes, which Sarah says are more rare and therefore more interesting than her own brown, establishing Sarah's Double as a slightly more glamorous person than Sarah ever was.
* CrashingDreams: Sarah dreams that she starts eating her old penny collection to spite her mother, then starts vomiting huge amounts of pennies all over the table. She awakens to discover that she's vomited in her sleep.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Sarah's Double kills Sarah through treachery with the help of Sarah's former loved ones, yet her life falls into the exact same disrepair that Sarah's did]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Sarah is introduced ordering a large amount of Mexican food, drinking alone, and then getting ready to masturbating to porn before taking a call from her boyfriend and lying about, showing her rather dreary life.
* ExpositoryHairstyles: Sarah almost always has her hair pulled into a simple ponytail, while her double always wears it loose, showing that her double is slightly more fashionable and put-together than she is.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Sarah fails to identify poison during Trent's test, but he says that poison is almost never used in a duel. Later, [[spoiler:Sarah fails to spot the obvious signs that Sarah's Double poisons her while they evade the duel, causing her to die]].
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Trent tests Sarah's killer instinct by demanding that she kill his dog, whom he says is terminally ill and in great pain. She can't bring herself to do it, though she's perfectly willing to kill her double.
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Sarah is clearly somewhat intimidated by her double, who has fewer physical flaws than her and seems to generally more suited to living her life than she is herself. Then it's revealed that her double has already been taking over aspects of her life while she's still alive, such as going out with her boyfriend and visiting her mother.
* PunBasedTitle: "''Dual''" refers to the duality of the two main characters as well as the fact that they are supposed to duel.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's never made clear where Sarah lives. She has an American accent and uses American money, but many other characters have British, Australian, or German accents. The license plates are generic white and have European dimensions. The final scene takes place at a traffic circle, which are rare in America. The film was filmed in Finland.
Creator/KarenGillan stars as Sarah, a depressed alcoholic who learns that she's terminally ill and opts to have a clone made of her to act as her replacement when she's gone. But when she goes into remission, she must fight her clone to the death over right to be the only Sarah. Creator/AaronPaul plays a martial arts instructor she turns to for training.
Not to be confused with ''Film/{{Duel}}''.
!!Tropes:
* AccentsArentHereditary: In keeping with the WhereTheHellIsSpringfield ambiance, Sarah runs across twins with thick British accents, but their mother has an American accent.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Sarah runs across young identical twin girls who help her reconcile with her own identical double.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Sarah's terminal stomach illness, which makes her occasionally vomit blood but has no other symptoms and then just randomly goes into remission, is not based on any real-world illness.
* BaitAndSwitch:
** Sarah wakes up with a pool of red liquid covering her pillow and bedspread, implying that she coughed up blood in the night. Then the camera pans over to a half-empty bottle of red whiskey, implying that she just vomited in her sleep after overdrinking. Then she goes to the ER and vomits up blood, revealing that she ''does'' have some sort of illness.
** Trent says that he's willing to accept a mutually beneficial trade in lieu of payment. When Sarah takes him up on this mysterious offer, she arrives at his dojo, they both begin taking off their clothes... and then [[spoiler:she teaches him hip-hop dance]].
* ChekhovsSkill: Sarah exercises in part by taking hip-hop dance classes. She later uses her knowledge to [[spoiler:give Trent a hip-hop dance lesson to pay for her final month of martial arts training]].
* ColorCodedEyes: Sarah's Double is identical to Sarah except for her blue eyes, which Sarah says are more rare and therefore more interesting than her own brown, establishing Sarah's Double as a slightly more glamorous person than Sarah ever was.
* CrashingDreams: Sarah dreams that she starts eating her old penny collection to spite her mother, then starts vomiting huge amounts of pennies all over the table. She awakens to discover that she's vomited in her sleep.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Sarah's Double kills Sarah through treachery with the help of Sarah's former loved ones, yet her life falls into the exact same disrepair that Sarah's did]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Sarah is introduced ordering a large amount of Mexican food, drinking alone, and then getting ready to masturbating to porn before taking a call from her boyfriend and lying about, showing her rather dreary life.
* ExpositoryHairstyles: Sarah almost always has her hair pulled into a simple ponytail, while her double always wears it loose, showing that her double is slightly more fashionable and put-together than she is.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Sarah fails to identify poison during Trent's test, but he says that poison is almost never used in a duel. Later, [[spoiler:Sarah fails to spot the obvious signs that Sarah's Double poisons her while they evade the duel, causing her to die]].
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Trent tests Sarah's killer instinct by demanding that she kill his dog, whom he says is terminally ill and in great pain. She can't bring herself to do it, though she's perfectly willing to kill her double.
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Sarah is clearly somewhat intimidated by her double, who has fewer physical flaws than her and seems to generally more suited to living her life than she is herself. Then it's revealed that her double has already been taking over aspects of her life while she's still alive, such as going out with her boyfriend and visiting her mother.
* PunBasedTitle: "''Dual''" refers to the duality of the two main characters as well as the fact that they are supposed to duel.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's never made clear where Sarah lives. She has an American accent and uses American money, but many other characters have British, Australian, or German accents. The license plates are generic white and have European dimensions. The final scene takes place at a traffic circle, which are rare in America. The film was filmed in Finland.
