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The Silent Twins || Disturbingly So...@jhymi359d
I’m not sure I’ve seen any disturbing film in the last couple of months but I got the chance to see one last week. I’m not sure the best words to describe this film because it is based on a true life story, and after reading about the lives of the Gibbon twins, this a story that will leave any and every one engrossed. Maybe not just in the best ways.
The Silent Twins (2022)
Like I said, I’m not sure how best to describe this film. But the movie begins with a very disturbing animation and two girls who I presume are the twins that use mostly their teeth to talk. They are pretending to be radio presenters and telling a lively story. The moment their Mom knocks on the door, they retreat into silence, and this more or less is everything this film is about.
They are incredibly talented when it comes to writing. Crafting the most vivid images with their words that are not exactly conventional but they are unique and true to them. When their works kept getting rejected by different publishing houses, they attribute this to a lack of inspiration because they don’t go out more, and don’t have a romantic life.
And so, they do. They set their sights on an American teenager who indoctrinates them into a world of alcohol, cigarettes and sex. On a note of inspiration from this teenager they idolize, they vandalize an establishment and are charged with arson and theft. They don’t get the help they need and are detained in a psychiatric hospital. They have two choices there. Stay together and die. Or separate and be free.
Because I know there are a lot of people who actively hated and were disgusted by the film, I’ll give my two cents. I found a few things contradicting. In the original story, the twins were painted as difficult people but moreso those around them like their families who were unwelcoming and their teachers who refused to give them the help they needed.
But in the movie, this was not the case. The entirety of the movie, in fact, was about how everyone around them kept rallying around and trying to get them the help they needed. Also, the ending where it seemed like nearly two decades or more had passed but everyone looked the same including their parents, that was kind of a loophole for me as well.
But to those saying that this movie is trash because you found it disturbing or the way the girls talked, disturbing. Or the animations, disturbing. That’s literally the whole point. This movie is not meant to be entertaining. It’s meant to be engrossing and reflective of two girls who were wronged by the system.
The Brontë girls talked to themselves and were definitely weird but they weren’t institutionalised, but these black girls, (because let’s face it, the reason why they weren’t given ample fair hearing and just left in that hospital to rot has a lot to do with their race), were abandoned.
I found too many things in the film disturbing and I’m guessing that this was the image that was supposed to be passed by the directors. The animation creeped me out, the way the sisters talked as well. Almost everything. But they had issues that were never really talked about or resolved. I, for one, would have liked to know what really pushed them to be silent. And I never got to really understand that.
But, it is what it is really. A disturbing watch, and you’re not sure what you learnt but I guess it doesn’t feel like much of a waste when you realize that it was based on a true story. I certainly wouldn’t have had glowing comments if this was someone’s nearly morbid imagination. Have a wonderful weekend, everyone. Watch this film, or not.
I didn't know there was a movie about this case of the twins, I was surprised and at the same time excited because years ago I had read this story and saw a couple of photos and tried to imagine everything in my head.
June & Jennifer Gibbons were known as the silent twins because at an early age they stopped communicating with other people and only communicated with each other. The story is somewhat murky because the fact that they did not talk to other people is due to an agreement that the twins had.
No sabía que había una película sobre este caso de las gemelas, me sorprendí y a la vez me emocioné porque hace años atrás había leído esta historia y vi un par de fotos y trataba de imaginar todo en lo cabeza.
June & Jennifer Gibbons fueron conocidas como las gemelas silenciosas porque a una temprana edad dejaron de comunicarse con el resto de personas y solo se comunicaban entre ellas, la historia es algo turbia porque este hecho de que no hablaran con otras personas se debe a un pacto que tenían las gemelas.
The movie is pretty faithful to what I had read about the twins, and by the way people, yes, this is something from real life.
The story takes us to the twins beginning their school days, here they had already moved to another country and unfortunately in their school they were the only black ones and this caused them to suffer bullying, at this stage was when the twins no longer spoke to anyone, even when they were bullied, they did not make a sound, the principal spoke to their parents and, excusing for their lack of speech, expelled them from school, although it is believed that this also saved them from further bullying.
La película es bastante fiel a lo que yo había leído de las gemelas, y por cierto gente, sí, esto es algo de la vida real.
La historia nos lleva a las gemelas comenzando sus días de escuelas, aquí estaban ya mudadas en otro país y lamentablemente en su colegio eran las únicas negras y esto causó que sufriera bullying, en esta etapa fue cuando las gemelas ya no hablaban con nadie, aún cuando sufrían bullying, no emitían ningún sonido, el director habló con sus padres y excusándose en la falta de habla las expulsó del colegio aunque se cree que también con esto les ahorró más bullying.
As the twins grew up, they spent their time alone in the room. However, they developed great writing skills, but being in full development, they also wanted to experience many more things, which ended up being drugs, alcohol, and vandalism.
Las gemelas a medida que iban creciendo se la pasaban en soledad en la habitación, sin embargo desarrollaron grandes habilidades para la escritura pero estando en pleno desarrollo también querían experimentar muchas cosas más, las cuales terminaron siendo drogas, alcohol y vandalismo.
The latter was the reason why they ended up in a high-security psychiatric hospital in England, remaining there for 11 years of their lives. Unfortunately, the day they manage to leave, Jennifer dies but the murky thing is that it seems that everything was planned in their pact, since it indicates that one of the two had to die.
Esto último fue motivo por el cual terminaron en un hospital psiquiátrico de alta seguridad en Inglaterra, permaneciendo allí por 11 años de sus vidas. Lamentablemente el día que logran salir Jennifer muere pero lo turbio es que parece que todo estaba planeado en su pacto, puesto que indica que una de las dos debía morir.
The story is deeper and with many more details than what I am telling you here, but it would be very extensive to explain everything. But if you are more interested, you can investigate or also watch the movie on HBOMAX.
La historia es más profunda y con muchísimos más detalles de los que yo les estoy comentando aquí, pero sería muy extenso explicar todo. Pero si les interesa más pueden investigar o también ver la película en HBOMAX.
›The Silent Twins | I wish I wouldn't have to talk@jauregui981166d
Actually, I've forgotten when I saw this movie, but since I had the brilliant idea of putting it on the list of movies I want to write about, I'm doing this right now. It's been a while since I've seen a movie like this, or at least one that made me feel a particular way that I've never identified with certainty before. This is a very slow movie, and as the title may indicate, it is very silent, but not really, because we will almost always be listening to the internal dialogue of the twins, the secret conversations they have, then we will have many unmissable conversations, which I particularly loved.
This movie is based on real events, in the life of June and Jennifer Gibbons, identical twins who grew up in Wales, who are known as 'The Silent Twins', because they both refused to talk to anyone other than themselves, that is, they only talked to each other and no one else. In this movie they do go to talk to other people, I don't know if in real life they did that while the events portrayed on screen were taking place, but if they didn't, I understand why they did it that way in this movie, as it was much easier to make the story flow more smoothly with them talking when they should, or when they wanted to achieve something.
La verdad, ya olvidé cuándo fue que vi esta película, pero como tuve la brillannte idea de ponerla en la lista de las películas sobre las que quiero escribir, estoy haciendo esto en este momento. Tenía tiempo que no veía una película de este tipo, o que al menos me hacía sentir de una forma en particular que no había identificado con certeza nunca. Esta es una película muy lenta, y como puede indicar el título, es muy silenciosa, pero en realidad no, pues casi siempre estaremos escuchando el diálogo interno de las gemelas, las conversaciones secretas que tienen, entonces tendremos muchas conversaciones imperdibles, que en lo particular, me encantaron.
Esta película está basada en hechos realos, en la vida de June y Jennifer Gibbons, gemelas idénticas que crecieron en Gales, que son conocidas como 'Las Gemelas Silenciosas', pues ambas se rehusaban a hablar con cualquier otra persona que no fuera ellas mismas, es decir, que solo hablaban entre sí y con nadie más. En esta película sí van a hablar con otras personas, no sé si en la vida real lo hicieron mientras tenían lugar los eventos retratados en la pantalla, pero si no fue así, entiendo que lo hayan hecho así en esta película, pues fue mucho más fácil hacer que la historia tuviera mayor fluidez con ellas hablando cuando debían, o cuando querían conseguir algo.
A month after starting this review is that I'm finally going to try to finish it. The beginning of the movie is one of my favorite things, there are the two of them playing that they are on a radio station and they are talking about anything, until they start talking about real or cruel facts of life, something like that was, and the one that day was how to deal with divorce, then they start talking about how men suffer a lot, because they think women are superior and hate them for that, but they can't live without them, how love can become destruction, and that even loving someone you can a la see want to watch them die. Hearing such dark and gloomy things from the voice of two sweet little girls was very disturbing, but it's something that is becoming more and more normalized, and I wish it wasn't so.
Another one of my favorite things is that it has stop motion scenes, and that was a marvel; normally these stop motion scenes are going to be the representation of the twins' internal dialogues, but as they get older they will change, they will become more and more descriptive, and they will stop being stop motion to be real and/or objective scenes of what we are hearing. To this we have to add that both are going to become writers, so many times in the middle of nowhere we will have a scene full of fiction that will blow our minds and it will be great, I really liked that they showed those little parts of their writings, they were very well done.
Un mes después de haber comenzado esta reseña es que finalmente voy a intentar terminarla. El inicio de la película es una de mis cosas favoritas, están ellas dos jugando a que están en una emisora de radio y están hablando sobre cualquier cosa, hasta que comienzan a hablar de hechos reales o crueles de la vida, algo así era, y el de ese día era cómo lidiar con el divorcio, entonces comienzan a hablar cómo los hombres sufren mucho, pues creen que las mujeres son superiores y las odian por eso, pero no pueden vivir sin ellas, cómo el amor puede llegar a ser destrucción, y que incluso amando a alguien puedes a la ver querer ver cómo muere. Escuchar cosas tan oscuras y tétricas de la voz de dos dulces niñas fue muy perturbador, pero es algo que cada vez está más normalizado, y ojalá no fuera así.
Otra de mis cosas favoritas es que tiene escenas en stop motion, y eso fue una maravilla; normalmente estas escenas en stop motion van a ser la representación de los diálogos internos de las gemelas, pero mientras más grandes sean van a cambiar, se irán haciendo cada vez más descriptivos, y dejarán de ser en stop motion para ser escenas reales y/o objetivas de lo que estamos escuchando. A esto tenemos que sumarle que ambas van a convertirse en escritoras, así que muchas veces en medio de la nada tendremos una escena llena de ficción que nos va a volar la cabeza y será genial, me gustó mucho que mostraran esas pequeñas partes de sus escritos, estuvieron muy bien hechas.
Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance did an incredible job, showing that connection had not to be easy, because they were not only twin sisters, but they promised that they would only talk to each other and no one else in the world, always together, everything together, forming a codependent relationship where being away from each other was synonymous with torture and suffering that did not even allow them to eat, that codependence, that obsession they had for each other was very palpable, there was no look that did not show the love and obsession they had for each other, the jealousy for what one achieved and the other did not, for what one got to have and the other wished to have or that did not exist at all, the almost imperceptible intensity of every interaction they had with each other was horrible to bear. I loved it.
One thing that really resonated with me was the fact that they at 6 years old, I think, was that they decided to stop talking, and just to imagine that I wouldn't have to talk or communicate with anyone unless I wanted to, sometimes I wish I didn't have to talk, didn't have to put up with being talked to with the expectation that I have to respond just because I can talk, and it's not that things are right with me, not at all, everything is wrong with me, that's why I don't want to talk, I don't want to communicate in almost any way with anyone, I can be happy knowing about the existence of people and how their lives develop, but don't ask me to say anything, talking tires me, talking tires me, just writing is the closest thing to calm I have, and that doesn't mean I want to write to communicate or give explanations.
Letitia Wright y Tamara Lawrance un trabajo increíble, mostrar esa conección no tuvo que ser fácil, pues no es que solo eran hermanas gemelas, si no que prometieron que solo hablarían entre sí y nadie más en el mundo, siempre juntas, todo juntas, llegando a formar una relación de codependencia donde estar alejadas era sinónimo de tortura y un sufrimiento que no les permitía ni siquiera comer, esa codependencia, esa obsesión que se tenían una a la otra era muy palpable, o había mirada que no demostrara el amor y la obsesión que se tenían, los celos por lo que una lograba y la otra no, por lo que una llegaba a tener y la otra deseaba tener o que no existiera en absoluto, la intensidad casi imperceptible de toda interacción que tenían entre sí era horrible de soportar. Me encantó.
Una cosa que resonó mucho conmigo fue el hecho de que ellas con 6 años, creo, fue que decidieron dejar de hablar, y de tan solo imaginar que no tendría que hablar o comunicarme con nadie a menos que así lo quiera me parece una maravilla, a veces quisiera no tener que hablar, no tener que soportar que me hablen con la expectativa de que tengo que responder solo porque puedo hablar, y no es que las cosas estén bien conmigo, para nada, todo está mal conmigo, por eso mismo es que no quiero hablar, no quiero comunicarme de casi ninguna forma con nadie, puedo ser feliz sabiendo de la existencia de las personas y cómo se desarrollan sus vidas, pero no me pidan que diga nada, hablar cansa, hablar me cansa, solo escribir es lo más cercano a la calma que tengo, y eso no significa que quiera escribir para comunicarme ni dar explicaciones.
This is not a movie for everyone, because if you don't like slow movies, with many silent scenes, where there are no men in sight, and when they come out they are only used, plus it is an unconventional drama, you won't like it, I loved it, that's why after almost two months of having seen it I can remember enough to write this and still feel and think again what I experienced when I saw it. Go see it, you won't like it, I love it.
Esta no es una película para todo el mundo, pues si no les gustan las películas lentas, con muchas escenas en silencio, donde no hay hombres a la vista, y cuando salen solo son usados, además de que es un drama poco convencional, no les va a gustar, a mí me encantó, por eso después de casi dos meses de haberla visto puedo recordar lo suficiente como para escribir esto y aún así volver a sentir y pensar lo que experimenté cuando la vi. Vayan a verla, no les va a gustar, yo la amo.
