Identity theft gets intimate when you steal someone's *life*, not just their credit score.
In an attempt to escape a bad living situation, Don breaks into an apartment and steals a new life for himself. In this space, he begins to shed the artifacts of his previous self and take on the essence of the person who lived there before him. When difficulties make Don leave his sanctuary, he meets a fellow tenant named Toni and quickly becomes enraptured.
Acting
Percy Hynes White's unsettling physicality as Don dissolves into someone else.
Production
The apartment becomes a character—claustrophobic yet weirdly aspirational.
Direction
Dashner stretches 23 minutes into something that haunts longer.
Director
Jordan Dashner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Percy Hynes White was fresh off Wednesday when he shot this, pivoting from Netflix darling to indie creeper.
The title's double meaning—sublet as rental and sublet as 'subtle'—hints that Don's transformation is never complete, only borrowed.
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