Two Ending Explained: Who Sewed Sara And David Together? Who Were The Bunker Twins?

Number two is the embodiment of opposites: masculine and feminine, matter and spirit, earth and sky, sun and moon, light and shadow, day and night. It is an expression of duality and mutual attraction, but it is also the symbol of separation because it derives from the division of unity. The two represents polarity and the attempt at conciliation. His archetype is the child, the evolutionary phase in which the human being recognizes his individuality, but he is also the shadow of the child, the orphan who is afraid of being alone and has to face the challenges of addiction and fear of abandonment.

Two (Dos) the Spanish body horror, available from 10 December in streaming on Netflix , lets go of these suggestions . The film is the fourth feature film by Catalan director and producer Mar Targarona which this time relies on a screenplay by Cuca Canals, Christian Molina and Mike Hostench.

Two’s story starts from a disturbing situation to say the least and from that he develops his narrative: what would you do if you woke up “attached” to another person? A disgusting nightmare, to which the film provides a motivation only in the end to explain the reason behind everything that is happening to the unfortunate protagonists.

The Plot

Two people, a man and a woman, suddenly wake up in a room in what looks like a hotel. They are complete strangers. His name is David (Pablo Derqui , the Joan of The Cathedral of the Sea), he is 38 years old, he is an orphan and is an escort. Her name is Sara (Marina Gatell, the Marquess of Villamar of La Cuoca di Castamar) she says she is 33, worked in a clothes shop and is married to Mario (Esteban Galilea), a jealous academic obsessed with the number two.

They are both naked in bed. They have not spent a night of passion: someone has drugged, kidnapped and sadistically operated on them. Now Sara and David are attached to the abdomen. Neither knows why nor remembers how he got there. Suspicious of each other, they begin to understand that if they want to save themselves, they must start trusting. Being “stitched up” is painful and embarrassing, but it also generates an irresistible physical attraction.

The Ending And The Explanation

Who wanted to inflict such excruciating suffering on Sara and David? It was not Mario, Sara’s possessive husband, despite two identical paintings and two copies of the Bible in the room, Mozart’s Requiem ringing on the phone and the description of the old man with the beard and white hair and the extravagant frame of the glasses matches. to the person who hired David to have sex with his wife.

The two note that whenever they get too close, to console themselves in moments of panic or to kiss and provoke their kidnapper, the lights go out. The truth is revealed when the couple decides to go further and the man who looks like Mario bursts into the room: he is Doctor Oscar Mashide (Kandido Uranga), the father of the two. David and Sara are brother and sister, and they were Siamese twins of different sex. Theirs was the only case in the whole world. She lied about her age: she was born on May 4th, the same day and at the same time as him. The mother, who died soon after giving birth, is Rita (Anna Chincho Serrano), the woman who appears in Paris in the photo they had found in the room.

At birth Sara and David were separated and entrusted to social services. But Oscar, suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, is back: he kidnapped his twins, stitched them together to reunite the family and take back the children they had taken from him. After he escaped from the asylum, Oscar drugged Sara and David and took them to what their children discover to be an isolated cabin in the snowy mountains. Sara reminded her a lot of Rita, and that’s why she gave her mother’s earrings.

Before operating the twins, Oscar did numerous experiments on some dogs, bound together and kept in cages in his macabre laboratory. In the garage of the house Sara finds her gun on a box next to Mario’s body. She planned to kill her husband because he was making his life hell. Oscar arrived before his daughter and killed the son-in-law.

The doctor’s sadistic and psychotic plan prompts Sara to fire two pistol shots: the first hits David in the knee, the second Oscar lethally. There is nothing left for the twins to do but cut the stitches with a letter opener and peel off. David remains on the ground in a bloodbath, Sara manages to get up and runs outside for help. But outside the bunker there is nothing. Just a lot of snow.

Sara is agonizing in the cold. Before he dies by shooting himself in the head, Oscar explains to David that the Siamese twins are destined to live and die together . They are permanently united as one living being. Although they have lived apart, the two are consciously related: they came into the world together and must leave it together. Their bodies exhale their last breath symbolizing perfect yin and yang, the two opposite and complementary principles of Taoism: the feminine (yin) and the masculine (yang), from whose combination proceeds the totality of the world and the changing nature of the whole.

Mar Targarona and his group of writers don’t seem to care much about the philosophical implications on the concepts behind the number two. Let alone think about the interchangeability of individuals like David Cronenberg in the masterpiece Inseparable or represent the unrepresentable, as done by a cult horror saga of the caliber of The Human Centipede.

In an interview granted to La Razón on the occasion of Dos’s presentation at the Malaga Film Festival, the director explains that she wanted to make ” a distressing film, which dares to go a little further without falling into coarseness “, referring to classics such as cinema. Cronenberg’s “new flesh” and Spielberg and Cameron’s fantastic.

Who Were The Bunker Twins?

On the credits of Dos there are some particular and decidedly gruesome images. They are photos of real Siamese twins . The most famous and legendary, those mentioned by Oscar and for which the term “Siamese” was coined, are Chang and Eng Bunker , the twins born in Siam in 1811 and connected in the central part by a band of flesh several centimeters long.

When they turned 18, the Bunkers were brought to the United States and “exhibited” as monstrous curiosities in circuses , like microcephalus, poromerics and hermaphrodites. After a decade on the freak show circuit, the twins bought land in North Carolina with the money they raised, spending their last days as true Southern gentlemen. The two married two sisters (Adelaide and Sarah Yates, daughters of a respected local landowner) and had 21 children.

Among the closing photos there are also those of Daisy and Violet Hilton, the British Siamese twins who became world famous artists during the 1920s and 1930s. For a long time they were the queens of vaudeville and American burlesque. The two were also hired by Tod Browning for his Freaks.

The Hiltons, however, weren’t like most Siamese twins. Both had their own organs and shared only the lumbar section and blood circulation. Like the Bunker brothers, the Hilton sisters also ended their days in North Carolina. But in a tragic and unfortunate way: cheated of their earnings, they were forced to work in a grocery store in Charlotte.

Life at the Hiltons wasn’t easy. Their biological mother Kate sold them to her employer, “aunt” Mary, who made them exhibit for a few pennies as well as mistreating and abusing them by clients. After “touring” Germany and Australia and Mary’s death, they began to make good money, working alongside legends like Bob Hope and Charlie Chaplin. Too bad they never saw a dime of that money, held by Edith, Mary’s daughter, along with her husband Myer Myers. It was thanks to the illusionist Harry Houdini that they managed to gain independence and even get married. Affected by Chinese flu in the late 1960s, they died within days of each other: Daisy at the end of January and Violet just two days after her sister.