![]() ![]() It isn't quite clear how Alba dies, actually, but it seems like she kills herself.Creepy Twins: They're obsessed with death, they take time lapse photos of rotting corpses, they're formerly conjoined twins that want to be re-joined.Coordinated Clothes: The brothers start dressing identically as they make themselves over into identical twins.As they begin growing closer together they express a desire to be joined together again, although they never act on it, settling for wearing oversized jackets and pants that they both fit into. Conjoined Twins: Oswald and Oliver are revealed to be formerly conjoined twins who were separated.As You Know: Early in the film Venus asks Oliver "How is your brother Oswald?", to establish the nature of the relationship between the two men. ![]() Artistic License – Biology: Conjoined twins are always identical, and Oswald and Oliver aren't (although they'd clearly like to be).The hooker who hangs around the zoo-a hooker in a zoo?-is named Venus de Milo, after the famous armless sculpture. A man with no legs shows up out of nowhere at one point he and Alba get married. At some point in the back story Van Meegeren amputated a leg from a gorilla at the zoo. Alba loses a leg in the car accident-and then lets Van Meegeren amputate her other leg, supposedly because having only one leg is compressing her spine but really due to Van Meegeren's obsession with symmetry. An Arm and a Leg: A recurring theme throughout the movie.But soon after they die the snails crawling all over the place get into the camera rig and short it out, so their pictures of decay are never taken. They lie down on the mat and kill themselves via injections. All for Nothing: The twins rig up one of their Time Lapse cameras.There's also a doctor at the zoo, with a fetish for amputations, and a hooker at the zoo named "Venus de Milo".it's quite a Mind Screw of a movie. The brothers begin to draw unnaturally close to each other, dressing identically, as together they fall into their obsessions. They both become fixated on Alba, and she has sexual relations with each. They begin taking the corpses of animals from the zoo and photographing the corpses as they rot. Both brothers, unable to deal with the deaths of their wives, become obsessed with death and decay. It turns out that the women in the back seat are the wives of two brothers, Oswald and Oliver Deuce ( Real Life brothers Brian and Eric Deacon). Alba's two passengers, two women in the backseat, are killed Alba winds up losing a leg. A woman named Alba Berwick is driving outside a zoo when a swan which apparently escaped from the zoo smashes into her windshield. "A Zed and Two Noughts" turns out to be a British way to spell "zoo". A Zed and Two Noughts is a 1985 film directed by Peter Greenaway.
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