The Silent Twins

Die schweigsamen Zwillinge
June und Jennifer Gibbons sind Zwillinge der einzigen schwarzen Familie in einer Kleinstadt in Wales in den 1970er Jahren. Die beiden fühlen sich von der Gemeinschaft isoliert, ziehen sich zurück und lehnen die Kommunikation mit den Menschen ab, um sich in ihre eigene Fantasiewelt voller Inspiration und jugendlicher Sehnsüchte zurückzuziehen. Nach einem Amoklauf werden die Mädchen nach Broadmoor, einer berüchtigten psychiatrischen Klinik, eingewiesen, wo sie vor der Wahl stehen, sich zu trennen und zu überleben oder gemeinsam zu sterben.
This is tough because I really didn’t vibe with this for much of it’s runtime. It’s stylistically very strange with double exposures, stop motion animation segments, and just a generally weird aesthetic. But it’s also kind of fitting because this true life story is so strange that it’s difficult to translate to screen without these digressions into fantasy. While I definitely came around to marginally liking this in the final moments, I couldn’t help but feel like I was more intrigued by the strange story behind this film than the film itself.
This is tough because I really didn’t vibe with this for much of it’s runtime. It’s stylistically very strange with double exposures, stop motion animation segments, and just a generally weird aesthetic. But it’s also kind of fitting because this true life story is so strange that it’s difficult to translate to screen without these digressions into fantasy. While I definitely came around to marginally liking this in the final moments, I couldn’t help but feel like I was more intrigued by the strange story behind this film than the film itself.



















