When first watching this film it posed many many unanswered questions e.g. Why are there spiders involved? and many involving the 'twins'.
After watching the film more than once it is clear to see that there isn't actually wins involved in the film at all and that it is just the protagonist named Adam Bell, projecting to parts of his psyche. By applying Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis it is easy to defer that the 2 characters that to a passive audience can be seen as twins are actually representative of the Superego and the id.
The protagonist which we are first introduce to Adam Bell, the central protagonist within the film, is subject to leading a very boring and repetitive lifestyle, he works as a history lecturer, everyday he goes to his lectures and then goes home, his appearance is rather boring and as a character he doesn't seem anything new or exciting. However the other 'protagonist' we meet named 'Anthony St Claire' appears to be a better dressed, more confident and unable to control his desires as he his known to have engaged in an affair. Anthony St Claire is Adam Bells id and is just a representation of the other side of Adam Bells psyche.
Adam Bell is a representation of the superego and spends the course of the film battling and trying to regulate the id. According to Freud's theory the superego lives by the rules placed into society and this exactly what Adam Bell does, he's got job, he doesn't misbehave and is an all round respectable character.
One of the most important scenes in the film is the scene where the pair are together and are in a car crash, it could be said the that this is the scene in which the superego finally kills and does away with the id part of his psyche. It is clear that this film is trying get inside the protagonists head and project an image of his psyche as he constantly fights with either side of his personalities.
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