"Dead Ringers" Directed by David Cronenberg

"Dead Ringers" is a layered film that can be read from a psychoanalytical perspective. "Dead Ringers" centres around identical male twins named Elliot and Beverly, of whom are set up as contrasting personalities. This essay is looking at them through the Sedgwick triangle, the boundaries between self and other.
Elliot is the outgoing twin, the one who lectures, accepts awards and also gets all the women, of whom he then passes on to Beverly unbeknownst to the women. This can be analyzed through the Sedgwick Homoerotic Triangle. Eve Sedgwick argues that homoerotic desire is mediated through a woman. …