The Skeleton Twins

I recently saw the new released movie 'The Skeleton Twins' with a few friends. I had watched the trailer previously, and I don't know why, but I just automatically assumed that it was going to be a romantic comedy... I was very much mistaken. Granted, there was humour in the story and some funny scenes, but with the movie opening with the two twins Maggie and Milo (played by Kristen Wigg and Bill Hader) simultaneously attempting to commit suicide, I realised that this was going to be much more intense than what I initially expected.

This action at the beginning of the movie was the mediator in the two characters to reunite again, after ten years of not speaking. The movie accounts the lives of the 'Skeleton twins' when they are together again, showing the personal issues that they each individually face, like depression, unemployment, starting a family, relationships of the present and past, as well as providing flash backs of their childhood and discovering the hardships that they faced together as children and how it impacts them now.

I was really impressed with the quality of acting- as I said, it was a really intense and the script was incredibly real- the characters and events were believable and the movie has quite rightly won the Screenwriting award: US Dramatic at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The film makes you laugh as well as want to cry, which demonstrates the ups and downs that one faces in life; it was complex and thoroughly written. My favourite scenes were the light hearted ones, for example when Milo is trying to cheer up Maggie by lip singing and dancing, which she joins in. It is a beautiful scene that makes you cheer up alongside her, even though their is a dark undertone, it provides a break from the troubles that are happening.

Powerful, moving, touching, confronting... 'The Skeleton Twins' is worth watching.