The Twins
aka De Tweeling, based on the international bestseller by Tessa de Loos – De
Tweeling https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0322674/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
9 out of 10
This is a
compelling story, that has become an international bestseller and has been
adapted for the big screen (this note is about the film, not the book, the
motion picture is absent from the site where this is posted, the experience has
been poignant enough to prompt the sharing of it online, and finally, last but
not least, it is not as if this space is watched and has a role in making
anybody decide on reading this, or the other volume, so there is the liberty to
put here lines that do not affect in any way…
Everything,
Everywhere All at Once https://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2023/01/one-of-important-motion-pictures-of.html one of the most acclaimed movies of
2022, but not a favorite of mine (how could it be, since it was stopped at
about fifteen, twenty minutes into the plot, given that there was no interest,
or better said, no comprehension of what was going on, apart from some feeling
that we have people doing things in parallel, or just different universes,
without much to get my attention anyhow) becomes in this case Nothing, Nowhere
All The Time, a mantra that is intended as a blague http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world?
We start
the narrative in 1990 - which was such a good year for yours truly, after
getting a mention in Newsweek http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html the issue that covered the Romanian
Revolution, for taking part in the overthrow of Ceausescu (something I
evidently feel proud of, hence the mention here and in multiple notes) I got
into money, bought an Audi (well, somehow forced on me, but for details you
need to read the whole story, ask me about where it is on the massive blog,
which by now is awash with thousands of entries) and then became the lover of
the first Miss Moldova, if only for about ten months, after which she dumped
in, and then hell broke loose, coming to this need to impart with all sorts of
rubbish – when Lotte Goudrian is in a spa.
In fact,
the name of the Belgian city is Spa, and this is where we also have Anna
Grosalie, who is also seventy four and looking for treatment…we are sent back
in time, to the time when the twin sisters were six, and their father died,
prompting the family to look for solutions and then having the two separated,
one to be raised in Germany, and the other in the Netherlands, which reminds me
of the Zen Master story, told by the Philip Seymour Hoffman character, at the
end of Charlie Wilson’s War http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/06/charlie-wilsons-war-written-by-aaron.html which goes something like this
This Zen
Master had a horse that run away, and the villagers express their sympathy, to
be told by the Master that ‘we shall see’, and indeed, the runaway animal
returns with other horses, the neighbors this time feel that this is cause for
celebration, only the Master is again cautious ‘we shall see’, which is
followed by his son breaking a leg, when he tries to domesticate these new
horses, and you can guess that folks were sure this is bad news, if the Sage
said the same thing…yes, the army came by to recruit people, and the son was
exempted, because of his injury and we know what the conclusion is here…
For The
Twins, it looked like Lotte has the bad luck, because she is ill, only as in
the Zen Master Story, she turns out to be the privileged one, while Anna is
abused, tortured and eventually beaten so severely that she will not be able (spoiler
alert) to have children in the future, by the man that wants her to work to
extinction on his farm…she is eventually taken off that Hades and she becomes a
servant, eventually working for a rich woman, not just a Nazi sympathizer, but
a vile racist, emphasizing the superiority of the ‘Master Race’, surmised when
Anna wants to help the Polish people that have been brought for forced labor
and one of the many examples of monstrosity that the war brought in people.
However,
when confronted with the atrocities of the World War II, Anna will explain that
she had no idea of what was going on, she never killed anybody, which is
something that was tested in The Milgram Experiment, explained in the
quintessential Influence by Robert Cialdini http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/05/influence-by-robert-cialdini.html participants in the research have
been told to apply electricity and they did, to the point where they would
cause screams, proving that the Principle of Respect for Authority gets humans
to do callous, abject things, you could look on the net for details…
Anna
marries a German man that is enlisted to fight in Russia, Poland and eventually
becomes a SS officer, though at the beginning he was thinking this war was a
mistake, maybe indoctrination, the aforementioned Principle of Respect for Authority
and fear of being shot as a deserter made him take part in the atrocities
inflicted by the Nazis on others…on the other side, Lotte and her family suffer
from the Nazi invasion of Holland, the misery of hunger and fear, her Jewish fiancée
is taken away.
David ends
up in Buchenwald first, and then he arrives in Auschwitz, we all know what apocalyptic
massacres took place there and in hundreds of other labor camps and places
where Hitler and his butchers killed more than six million Jews, also
minorities like the Roma, disabled and opponents of their regime, this will
cause more than a rift, when they meet in Germany, while the atrocities have
not reached their peak, the sisters get along well, in spite of the fact that
their letters had been blocked.
The farmer
wanted to have his slave to work to death, while the rich family of Lotte was
worried that they may lose her, she might be taken to that farm…eventually the
two reunite, only when her sister is departing, Anna looks at the photo of the
fiancé and she says that he looks Jewish and Lotte realizes that the twin could
well be a Nazi sympathizer or worse, after David is killed in Auschwitz, and
her sister comes to The Netherlands, there is some hesitation and suspicion,
but when the photo of the SS officer at the wedding is seen, Lotte is enraged, throwing
her twin out of the house, shouting that she will never want to see her again,
they live in different worlds, they will never have anything in common…there is
a chance that at the age of seventy four, maybe they will find peace and
Atonement http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/05/atonement-by-ian-mcewan.html
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