Dead Ringers - Criterion Collection

Rating:
Summary: another good film with impressive special effects
Review: This review id for the Criterion Collection edition of the film.

This film based on the book "Twins" by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, which is based loosely on a true story.

The plot is simple 2 identical twin brothers who are gynocologists and share the same office, home, and patients.
They have a new patient with a very unusual gynocological anomaly. They fall in love with her and later begin to develop a major problem.

What is most impressive is the fact that Jeremy Irons played both brothers. The scenes where they are together was filmed with breathtaking split screen imagery and motion control cameras. The action is completly seamless very impressive for its time. The criterion DVD has special "making of" clips and show how difficult it was to film this action. While not mentioned in the features, I would assume that the continuity supervisor probably had a very important role on the set.

The film also stars French-Canadian actress Geneviève Bujold who was originally slated to play Captain Janeway on Star Trek Voyager, but left after a day and a half of filming.

The DVD has additional special features with excellent audio commentary by selected cast and crew.

While some scenes in this film may be disturbing to some viewers, the "twinning" special effects are not to be missed!

Rating:
Summary: More depressing than seconal ...
Review: I've seen this movie twice, one at 12 years and another when I was 17 ...God, this movie is as depressive as the seconal.

Depicts like a X-Ray the psycho-emotional decadence of both twins ... it meakes you feel as one or both twins through each one of the down steps of their downward spiral.
You can see the twins trapped finally on their little world of "the wonderful and medically revolutionary methods" and being pressed by their own fame and self convincing of their revolutionary ideas.

Technically, acting ,scripting ...everything in this production is focused to make this movie is really the most effective psychological movie I've seen.