Rachel Weisz deserves 2 Golden Globes for the shocking new Amazon Prime Video series that reimagines an ’80s classic

Rachel Weisz stars twice on Amazon Prime Video in the story of twin surgeons with a very special bond. If the argument sounds familiar to you, it is because it is the television adaptation of ‘Inseparables’, the 1988 classic starring Jeremy Irons and directed by David Cronenberg. And if not, you have both the film and the series on the platform to marathon this May weekend.

‘Inseparable’, the female reimagining of Cronenberg’s classic

‘Inseparables’ (Dead Ringers) is a hopeless, nihilistic drama about individuality, addictions and identity, and one of David Cronenberg’s most disturbing films. And these are big words. We are talking about the father of “the new meat”, the master of body horror and creator of several of the best horror films in history such as ‘The Fly’, ‘Videodrome’ or ‘Scanners’. but possibly the film that has the most in common with ‘Inseparables’ is the recent ‘Crimes of the past’, for that macabre and almost sexual fascination with surgery and its instruments.

Cronenberg’s original film is a psychological drama starring Jeremy Irons as twins Beverly and Elliot Mantlandtwo gynecologist brothers with great success among their patients and among the local medical community. Although siblings obviously look alike, psychologically they couldn’t be more different.. Elliot is more open, flirty, and sarcastic, while Beverly is more introverted, reserved, and shy. Both swap identities at will as they see fit, taking advantage of each other’s virtues, but everything changes when an actress named Claire Niveau (Geneviève Bujold) becomes the center of a twisted love triangle between the twins.

Amazon’s new series is fresher and more committed, but just as disturbing. If Cronenberg’s film is Beverly, the series created by Alice Birch would be Elliot. He maintains the constants on identity but takes a turn applying it to the feminine prism, changing the Mantle twins to THE Mantle twins with a Spectacular Rachel Weisz playing two characters that couldn’t be more alike and more different at the same timewith all the complexity that entails.

The new point of view two women imposing their personalities in front of a society that sees them as two identical mirrors, and even as an exotic (and erotic) attraction just for the fact of sharing physical (the series begins without consideration, with a slimy proposing a threesome for no reason in a cafeteria) It is a twist that seems as obvious as it is necessary to reimagine the story.. Topics such as surrogacy or abortion, “my body, my decision”, the difference between the sexes in terms of contraceptive methods, gestation and maternity and the unequal treatment of women (and even depending on their race) in the North American health have an important relevance in a program that does not renounce explicit gore and unpleasant and shocking images to confirm your proposal.

‘Inseparables’ raises an interesting proposal that is: When you have a twin, everything is reduced to half… Or double? The way he tries to respond is unsettling and heartbreaking, but also profoundly funny, with a totally unique, sarcastic, wry tone that is hard to pin down and even more impossible to replicate. The series is about identical twins, yes, but its proposal is so unique that you will not find anything remotely similar in the entire current television landscape..