The silent twins is based on the haunting true story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and ‘80s.
Feeling isolated from that unwelcoming community, the pair turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other. They retreat into their own fantasy world of artistic inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree of vandalism inspired by an American boy they both idolize, the girls, now teenagers, are summarily sentenced to Broadmoor, the infamous UK psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together.
The film for me celebrates the transient nature of obsessions in your teenage years, but also how dismissive (you) one can be. Moving between subcultures, passions, fixations on celebrities, pop icons, cultural influences and how all of these different mediums, influence your identity in an attempt to find out who you are.
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