Thursday, May 29, 2025

Dead Ringers

Dead Ringers was a superb movie by director David Cronenberg about the strange relationship between twin doctors who are both played by Jeremy Irons in a great performance.

Genevieve Bujold plays his girlfriend...but whose girlfriend is she? Which one of the twins? That's basically the whole storyline of the movie. Because, eventually, even the twin themselves don't know who's who.

At one point in the film, Bujold makes love with one of the twins, and she's tied with medical wraps to the end of the bed, and her ankles bound to Irons' ankles. This is a very nice consensual bondage scene.

Would you believe that Bujold was almost the captain of the USS Voyager? She had the part for a few days before leaving, citing "creative differences." You can find footage of her as Janeway on YouTube.

Amazon remade this film as a TV show, with Rachel Weisz playing the twins. To the best of my knowledge, Cronenberg wasn't involved with the TV show.

Which might explain why the TV show wasn't very good. Avoid the TV series and track down the film.

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