In the end, the only thing of any interest is the paths people take. The tragic part is that even when they know where they're going and who they are. Everything is still a mystery. And that mystery, forever unsolved, is life.
As Cronenberg has observed: “Dead Ringers is conceptual science fiction, the concept being: ‘What if there could be identical twins?’ I’m suggesting that’s impossible. I can imagine a world in which they are only a concept, like mermaids.”