Dead Ringers (1988)

Dead Ringers (1988)

Dir. David Cronenberg

When Cronenberg helms a story about identical twin gynaecologists who specialise in treating female fertility problems and who share their patients and their lovers, you would expect to find an uncomfortable mixture of sexual practices with clinical ones.

And you will, but Dead Ringers goes to even deeper levels of unease. The pair live an ordered lifestyle, are outwardly confident, professional and well-respected by their peers, but it's the twofold shadow cast by the privacy of their complex relationship that the viewer needs to pay close attention to. 

Like in a single body or organism, when an interdependent part falls out of sync with its connecting organs, malady occurs.

British actor Jeremy Irons is amazing in a dual role, skilfully feeding himself emotional triggers and responding to the same situation, sometimes in two very different ways.