In ‘A Different Man’, he takes a different, fresh approach to the concept, introducing us to the shy, somewhat awkward but still charismatic Edward (Sebastian Stan in some remarkable prosthetics).
Beyond the academic nature, aren’t all our faces different? Isn’t that visually the easiest way we tell ourselves apart from one another, regardless of a genetic condition or disability?
A Different Man is a bundle of gambits and tones that should be completely incompatible: part absurdist black comedy, part Kafkaesque dragon-punch to the soul, part Jekyll-and-Hyde morality tale ...