Friday 5 October 2018

Three Identical Strangers

This documentary tells the unlikely but true story of triplets separated at birth who were reunited in their late teens via coincidence (for two of them) and media coverage (for the third). There's a whole heap of twists and surprises in here (although the fate of one of the brothers is somewhat hinted at by the fact he doesn't appear in interviews), and it's best going into this knowing not-very-much beyond the setup. It turns into a film that's about much more than one bizarre incident, and leaves open big questions about how personalities are constructed, how we form our beliefs and much more. A startling, incisive, clever documentary that does the hard yards of taking a story and crafts it into a narrative. Compelling viewing.

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