horrorfan198129 Based on the book "Twins" by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, Jeremy Irons plays twins Gynecologists Elliot and Beverly Mantle, the film starts of with the Mantle twins in their youth, Then college/university graduating, then having their own clinic Mantle Inc, Elliot is more charismatic, suave and confident, Beverly is more shy and quiet. one day movie actress Claire Niveau (Genevieve Bujold) turns up at their clinic for treatment, Elliot seduces Claire then tells Beverly he should try her as they both are Identical. Beverly falls for her then develops a drug habit which could ruin everything they have worked for.This movie is more Drama than David Cronenberg's earlier movies in the horror genre, the film does start of slow but once you settle into it, its very much enjoyable, Jeremy Irons is amazing in this film under the guidance of a brilliant director.

JasonGuzman When you combine Cronenberg and Jeremy Irons and a great screenplay, you get a fantastic, superbly made film. I was going to say a genre but I don't think you can quite pinpoint a specific genre. It is drama mixed with horror and thriller. I've noticed Cronenberg likes to gradually suck you into the story with a delicate pace so when absurd, shocking, and unconventional scenes come you are left disabled, mouth open from the shock and awe of it. This is one of the best double performances I've ever seen. Very early on you can detect their different personalities despite that identical twinship. Claire, the love interest that is in danger of separating them, asks Beverly (Jeremy Irons)in one particular intimate scene, "Are you guys the same psychologically?" and Beverly says "no, of course not" if I'm not mistaken. It is fascinating to watch how each brother deals with their other half while simultaneously becoming each other throughout the film. Sometimes it's not easy to distinguish the difference. This can be considered a study on identity and maybe consciousness, the fact that we think of ourselves as individuals but maybe history has shaped us in a way that we cant control? Beverly ends up depending on drugs to feel sane after an emotional breakdown that is perfectly captured and commits a sinful act as a gynecologist. it is up to his twin to take care of his ailing brother but at what cost? Nevertheless it's a film that makes you think a lot

orza1995 Set in Toronto 1988 Siamese twin the extrovert Elliot and the introvert Beverly (both played by the brilliant Jeremy Irons) are brilliant gynaecologist. Throughout out there lives the twins have shard homes, jobs and due to the identical physical appearances women. After a short relationship that includes the twins engaging in sado erotic sex with an actress named Claire (Geneviève Bujold). After a short time she discovers that they are two different people. Beverly soon fall in love with her, and after discovering Claire has a deformed womb and is infertile. She leaves for a new film and the twins believe she is sleeping with someone ells, this is the key to the once collated Beverly to fall into a spiral of depression, drugs and a strange belief that all women he sees have deformed wombs.The very opining sequences of the film highlight exactly the films subject matter is, which is sex the cold observation on the life cycle of the human race. This is recognised through the central performances by Jeremy Irons playing the two twins is titanic and operatic, every nuance he places into each twin is impeccable. This role however does have a tendency to ought-way the role of Geneviève Bujold, which in some respects reinforces how fragile her character is at heart. In terms of personal development for director Cronenberg, up to this point Dead Ringers was his most mature film. This is because in previous films such as Scanners, his subtext was directly translated throughout the gore, however Dead Ringers proves to be a more metaphysical representation of themes commonly found in Cronenberg work (such as sex, life, death and flesh). Where the threat of danger and themes are only hinted at. One example is the strange homo-erotic relation that the two twins have. Other examples are all the hinted terrors the film, and the underlining feeling that some thing bad will happen very soon. Over this part of the film may bring a negative element to the film ,where some of the pacing is slow and uneventful, this however works in the films favourer, for the final fifteen minutes are not only painful to watch but are sole destroying. The film has had an obvious influences to Takashi Miike Audition, in respects to the grime ending and all the way to Pascal Laugier Martyrs that has the same clinical view on life. Overall the film is a ner-perfict, with and this proving the be the most mature peace that director David Cronenberg had made at the time. However the minimalist approach to big themes may give people a empty feeling.

aaamail Recommendable. A movie about a special couple of brothers, who transformed themselves from geeky children interested in medical sciences to forty something gynecologists at the top of their field. They have a special emotional bond that makes them play with their identities, without other people being aware of it, because they look exactly the same. Different, but completely dependable, the sex games they play are bound to spiral out of control, and so they do, completely changing the look of both the brothers and their environments. The aesthetics of the movie are extremely thoroughly done, and you wont find a scene that doesn't fit the cold upper class 80's corporate theme. Marble covered walls, steel elevators, tall ornamented wooden doors and wide open spaces with a 80's futuristic and almost dysphoric noir feel going on. Doctors are dressed like members of secret cults, and the brothers lives and the work they do play out like elaborate rituals. And as the movie progresses their super organized apartment becomes a messy wasteland mirroring the state they are in. This is a multilayered movie that definitely will reveal itself even more on a second watching, even though psychological involvement is sometimes a little hard, maybe because of the movies lack of warmth.