The coexistence between twin brothers can be very intimate and curious, so it is an excellent material to create dramatic and humorous films. The presence of the twins in the cinema is so recognized that it has its own subgenre in the film industry.
Some of these films starring twins can show special relationships between these types of siblings, they can illustrate the forced separation between two brothers, the constant physical comparisons and even the dependence that can be created from different situations.
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- We will present three iconic films that have the twins as protagonists.
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- Will illustrate some of the peculiarities of the relationship between twins.
This 1998 remake is extremely popular. A whole generation grew up watching this movie with Lindsay Lohan. The actress was only 11 when she played twins Hallie and Annie, who were separated by her parents’ divorce shortly before she was born.
The two sisters live in different countries, one in England and the other in the United States, separated by the Atlantic Ocean, coincidentally found in a summer camp in Maine, United States.
There, the twins develop a plan to unite their family, which involves exchanging their lives: the American would go to London and English to California.
This film refers to an unacceptable and unfair aspect: the separation of the two sisters at birth by the divorce of their parents, the worst thing is that neither of them knew the other.
While this can be hard to believe, there are many real stories of forced twinning, as evidenced by the large number of twin brothers gathered by chance in life.
A surprising and true story of separate triplets was featured in the documentary Three Identical Strangers. It’s worth knowing.
This twin film is an iconic 1980s comedy starring Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger as twin brothers, highlighting the great physical differences between the two.
In the film, the two characters discover that they are twins, although they do not look alike, are the result of an experiment that has had unexpected results.
However, the differences between these two brothers are not only physical, but also personality, Julius (Schwarzenegger) is an honest person with a formal education and extremely naive, Vincent (DeVito) is a pathological liar and a professional thief.
The explanation for the great physical difference between the two is that the brothers are not identical twins, on the contrary, they are bivitelin twins, that is, fraternal twins.
This type of twins are the product of the fertilization of two eggs by two different sperm, in this way the result can be two very different brothers physically, born on the same day.
The explanation may also be different: multiple fertilization. The twin brothers can each have a different father. It’s extremely rare, but possible. This happens when the mother releases more than one egg and is fertilized by more than one man in a short period of time.
Twins in movies often respond to similar structures. The most common stereotype is to classify one of the twins as the villain and the other as the good one. That’s what this movie does.
Twins Elliot and Beverly are two gynecologists specializing in the treatment of female infertility. Elliot takes advantage of the women he cares for, while Beverly comforts them. All this without women knowing they’re identical twins.
Everything changes when the brothers meet Claire, a woman unable to conceive of the morphology of her uterus. The two brothers collide because Beverly falls in love with Claire, while Elliot is obsessed with her just because of the particular morphology of her uterus.
When Claire discovers that Beverly has a twin brother, she feels betrayed and ends the relationship, thanks to this Beverly falls into a depression for which she finds only relief through drugs, so the relationship between the twins enters an existential crisis.
Clearly, the relationship between Elliot and Beverly is a common identity relationship, this occurs when twins take refuge in each other, that is, they are dependent on each other, considering themselves as a single entity.
This means that everyone has a partial “I” workout, which makes it difficult to relate to others. Their appointments are brief and friendships don’t progress. This kind of twin brother can’t live without the other.