i saw this film at the 2005 toronto international film festival . base on a novella by science fiction author brian aldiss and this film attempt to tell the story of tom and barry howe and conjoined twin who be pluck from their family by an impresario in order to form a rock band . almost deliberately gimmicky and the film be also too clever by half ( if you will pardon the pun ) . by mix genre and style and mood and the director ( whose previous film be the excellent documentary lose in la mancha ) lose their way pretty quickly . i be never sure whether i be mean to take it all seriously or not . flashback and dream sequence and it be all just a bit much . plus and the promised rock and roll just do not move me . i be remind a bit too much at time of hedwig and the angry inch and a film i find original and move . but in this case and the song just weren not a good and nor be the main character sympathetic . a more unfavourable comparison would be the similarly disappointing velvet goldmine .