Nie Kou-Half of Death

Diego 2022-01-07 15:53:12

Bever’s nightmare is what I think is the best way to express twins in camera language. It is both an umbilical cord that links their lives and an ugly parasite.

They did not agree, but handed over what they were not good at to their twin brothers. Their anchor was each other, and they could fix themselves in the precarious world. Until this woman-Claire appears, three cervixes may be three needs. She wants a child, Bever needs love, and Ellie needs his brother. Bever’s weak social interaction was vividly shown when he met Claire. He would not communicate with him. His link to her came from his brother. His uneasiness extended to the greatest extent when Claire was not in front of him. At the same time, he was also afraid. She would break his link with Ellie. Only medicine can be used to repair the cracks caused by fear. As for Elly, his superior social skills may be able to conceal his fear, but his heart is already broken. When the three of them danced, he did not touch Bever, but he borrowed a woman's hand to touch his brother. He watched him fall without panic, but when the woman gave Bever artificial respiration, he pushed her away and refused to touch his brother—his half body. In fact, he is more vulnerable than Bever. When Bever falls in love with Claire, his anchor is not only tied to his brother, but Elie has only Bever from the beginning to the end, so when Elie leaves again, He was completely broken. Among the Siamese twins, Chang died because of Eun’s death. Perhaps according to the movie Ellie was Eun, but I think Bever was Eun, and Bever was broken and died because of him.

Claire asked Ellie if he hated her, but he did not answer. But I think he is. He hates this woman who separates him from Bev. He hates this woman who gets Bev. Ellie and Bever are connected, they are the same soul trapped in two bodies. In the end Bever separated them, but his soul was half dead, and he was lost in the world at the same time. Digression: I always hate things that break balance. Claire is an unstable factor. Her penetration broke the balance of the twins, which always makes me feel uncomfortable.

Negligence (1988)
7.8
1988 / Canada / Dramatic Love Thriller / David Cronenberg / Jeremy Irons, Jennifer Bujo

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  • Carmella 2022-03-23 09:02:35

    Stunned, this is going to haunt me for a while.... in more ways than one

  • Alfonso 2022-01-07 15:53:12

    The two films of Cronenberg starring Jeremy Irons are works with relatively few personal elements of Cronenberg. The main point here is visual stimulation, but the internal themes are still the same. This Uncle Irons plays twins with different personalities alone, so he is addicted to acting, but the film is too literary and yawning. The heroine is too ugly, I remember she was amazed when she played "The Mystery", she was so old fast.

Dead Ringers quotes

  • Elliot Mantle: [on seeing her medical chart for the first time] What, THE Claire Niveau?

    Beverly Mantle: Yeah.

    Elliot Mantle: Ooo! What's she doing here?

    Beverly Mantle: She's doing a miniseries. She's got 3 agents and a bodyguard in the waiting room.

    Elliot Mantle: And her life is empty without children.

    Beverly Mantle: How did you know?

    Elliot Mantle: Oh come on, Bev, everyone knows that. Don't you ever read the National Enquirer? "Star's Life Empty Without Children"?

    Beverly Mantle: Well, I hope the National Enquirer also explained how we can make her fertile, because I don't think i can.

  • Claire Niveau: Listen. Doctor. I think there's something wrong with you. I don't know what it is, I can't put a label on it, but you're subtly - I don't know - schizophrenic? Or something. Sometimes I like you very much. and sometimes, you're an amusing lay, not much more. And I cant figure out why.

    Beverly Mantle: [he extracts and rattles a prescription pill bottle]

    Claire Niveau: [sympathetically] Beverly.

    Beverly Mantle: One for you. One for me.

    [they both ingest a pill]