He is his twin and his reflection. There is no Bever outside of Avery in the world, and no Avery outside of Bever. This is not the "two-life" model, but a variant of Narcissus. The other flower in the water is just the shadow of the one on the shore. As a result, they are born with a tacit understanding-the so-called complementarity in character reflects a kind of instinctive "preservation" of the whole. This kind of "doing their own duties" can maximize the benefits for the survival of the two of them.
This is a spiritual Siamese baby, but physically independent. As a result, the old trouble of entangled soul and body reappeared. Originally, they tried to create the illusion of "one person", using "one body" to share and treat everything around them (Beaver has been a virgin before being induced by Avery, which is undoubtedly an important hint of "two bodies in one"), Until there is an insurmountable obstacle: sex can be shared, but love cannot. Love can only belong to an independent individual, coming from his/her unique heart and soul. They both had a relationship with Claire, but only Bever fell in love with her, and she later determined that she only loved Bever. What's worthy of fun is the scene in the dressing room, where Avery expresses sadness rather than jealousy: in a "two-person world" mode, he will inevitably become a burden to abnormal zero.
This time even Plato was about to cry-in his age, conjoined twins, etc., were directly dealt with as monsters when they were born. So his famous "other half" theory does not say this at all. Paradoxically, the bodies of Avery and Bever are not connected in fact, and the sense of dependence is entirely on the soul. This is more difficult to separate than physical connections. Although when one of them had a problem, the other would initiate a series of self-help strategies—Avery forced Bever to detoxify, pretended to be him, and pleaded with the medical committee about the failure of the operating table, and tried to treat him—but everything was completely ineffective. Taking drugs together and breaking down one after another, like fate in the dark, as early as the moment they split from the same egg in the womb, they have been doomed.
So, what about women? They are not the "other half" in the legend, but the opposite list of Gemini. The setting of the "three wombs" emphasizes Claire's singularity in a symbolic sense: she is an unproductive body, an absolutely unisexual existence. She refuses to accept the "oneness" of Avery and Bever at the same time, must distinguish them, and treats Avery as the bondage of Bever, urging him to break away from this "obstacle" (in contrast to Avery 'S girlfriend doesn't care about 3P). And this seemingly "normal person" logic just makes Siamese intuitionally frightened and threatened: Love will cut the umbilical cord between them and dismember them. Bever's anxiety and collapse stemmed from this dilemma: love can hardly extricate itself, and brothers can't give up. What he has to face is that he is not a separate individual. There is another soul with him forever, including the most intimate moments.
Since the soul cannot be cut, the most Knenberg-style medical equipment can only fall on the flesh in the end. Avery's life was terminated. It can also be said that this is Bever's suicide. This is alluded to at the beginning of the film: "They are not the same as us." That's right. Ordinary people have only one body and one life. For them, there are two bodies, but life is the only one.
(In terms of visual effects, the most impressive is undoubtedly the bright red surgical gown. Except for the film of David Knenberg, I really can’t see this.)
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