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When films are made they are often meant to spark something within the viewer. Many a times directors and writers create a film to ask a question, get the audience thinking about a topic, and sometime make them reflect on themselves and their own purpose in life. The film “The Skeleton Twins” directed by Craig Johnson, is about a Milo and Maggie Dean, a pair of twins who have been estranged with each other for 10 years. Through out the film, Johnson touches upon themes of family, life and death, and toxic and healthy relationships.

The film starts off with Milo and his sister Maggie, twins who are in different locations. With a focus more on Milo, it is reviled to the audience that Milo feels alone and abandon due to the fact that he addresses his suicide not to “Whom it may concern”. The scene then cuts to Maggie who also appears to be unhappy with something. We see Milo again, throwing a picture frame into a fish tank, and turning up his stereo. Then a overhead shot of him laying in a bathtub. His hands are out of shot, Milo moves and has a look of discomfort on his face and the bath water slowly turns red. A cut to Maggie revels that she two is trying to commit suicide with a handful of pill. Right before she does so she gets a call from the hospital that her brother is recovering in. …show more content…

Once she arrives to the hospital it is revealed that her and her brother have not seen each other in 10 years. From that point on the two are often filmed far apart from each other, representing not only their physical distance from one another, but also their emotional

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