Tin and Tina Ending Explained: Are the Twins Truly Evil?

Tin and Tina Ending Explained: Tin and Tina (Tin&Tina) is a psychological horror film directed by Rubin Stein, who also serves as the screenwriter of the film. It’s based on a 2013 short film of the same name and stars Milena Smit and Jaime Lorente alongside Carlos González Morollón and Anastasia Russo. The film has a runtime of 120 minutes.

Tin and Tina follow the sordid story of Lola and her husband Adolfo, who, on their wedding day, face the most heartbreaking tragedy of their lives and lose their child. Heartbroken, they decide to adopt children from their local convent, but Lola is taken in by twin orphans right as she meets them unexpectedly. In spite of her husband’s insistence not to do so, Lola pushes to adopt them. Although their lives flow well, Lola notices that there is something wrong with the twins, especially the fact that they are too enmeshed in Christianity and take the Bible literally.

Not thinking too much about it, Lola and Adolfo face some very difficult times thanks to the twins. Adolfo chooses to brush it away, but Lola’s fear grows day by day, more so when she learns that she is pregnant once more. Lola starts to notice increasingly odd behaviours, and without her husband’s support, she starts to grow resentful. Is it Lola’s trauma that has her extra vigilant, or is there truly something wrong with the twins?

Tin and Tina Ending Explained: Are the Twins Truly Evil?

Throughout the film, we see the twins do some seriously messed up things – dismembering the dog and hurting their bullying classmate are extremely disturbing things that two children should not be capable of doing. However, the premeditation that they put into these acts is the truly hair-raising action – stealing Lola’s sleeping medicine, lacing Kuki’s food with it and then dismembering the animal takes planning and thorough execution that I, personally, don’t believe two children can and should have.

Plus, the situation wherein they put the baby underwater by dunking it into the pool by his feet is also something two kids should know is dangerous. The twins are clearly pushed along their path by their religion – as Lola mentions, they interpret the Bible absolutely literally. Thus, they reenact the same dangerous and horrible acts as a way to get away from sin, probably not understanding that murdering an animal or hurting another human such that they go into a coma is absolutely devious.

In the last leg of the movie, we see Tin and Tina look at each other while saying their night prayers, and then we see a shot of the nun falling asleep while keeping guard. There are small footprints on the floor in Lola’s house beside the open door – all of these signify that the movie might have tried to hint that the twins had something to do with their father’s accident. However, personally, I doubt that.

I think the twins were just guided by their incorrect interpretation of their religion and did some horrible things. Sure, there is something definitely wrong with them, but it doesn’t seem like they caused Adolfo’s death. In the end, it seems like Lola forgave the children and embraced her religion once more and decided to take the twins under her care once more.

However, the ending is left open to interpretation. What are your thoughts on the matter? Let us know in the comments below!

Tin and Tina is streaming on Netflix.

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