Doodlebug is a 1997

1997 in film

-Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...

 short psychological thriller

Psychological thriller

Psychological thriller is a specific sub-genre of the broad ranged thriller with heavy focus on characters. However, it often incorporates elements from the mystery and drama genre, along with the typical traits of the thriller genre...

 film by Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan

Christopher Jonathan James Nolan is a British-American film director, screenwriter and producer.He received serious notice after his second feature Memento , which he wrote and directed based on a story idea by his brother, Jonathan Nolan. Jonathan went to co-write later scripts with him,...

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Plot

The story consists of a somewhat ratty man, in a much rattier flat. There, he seems intent - and possibly even driven to insanity - with catching a doodlebug; ergo the film's title. However, after over 2 minutes of cat-and-mouse

Cat and mouse

Cat and mouse, often expressed as cat-and-mouse game, is an English-language idiom dating back to 1675 that means "a contrived action involving constant pursuit, near captures, and repeated escapes." The "cat" is unable to secure a definitive victory over the "mouse", who despite not being able to...

 chasing, it is revealed that said doodlebug looks like a miniature version of himself, which he then proceeds to squash with a shoe, which has been his weapon of choice. However, before squashing it, we make a realization: every move that the doodlebug takes, the man takes as after a delay of about a second. Therefore, it is Kafka-esque indeed when after finally feeling the satisfaction of catching the doodlebug, that the aforementioned flat comes to inhabit a large face, that of the man; thereby making the man the doodlebug, and he proceeds to get squashed by this newer being.