BS: review: Three Identical Strangers (film)

Subject: review: Three Identical Strangers (film) SPOILER
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Feb 19 - 11:54 AM

I'm cheating, as usual.
I watch the film tonight on a cable TV broadcast,
it will be my first time seeing this film.

This opening post is done this way,
in the faint hope that
someone else might take an interest in watching the broadcast.
"Three Identical Strangers" is scheduled on the CNN network
for 9 PM, Eastern standard time, tonight,
Sat. 2 February.

This documentary has generated a lot of mass-media coverage and press.
I wonder if more people have read ABOUT the film
than have seen it.

Yes, it's the one about identical triplets separated at birth
and raised in three different families.

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I guess I ought to put SPOILER in the thread title but
I don't think there's room.

The SPOILER is:
the film is about the trials and tribulations of three men.
Only two survive, at the end, to tell the tale.

One more thing:
Has anyone posting here, already seen this film?
Care to tell us your impression/ opinion?

Okay, after I've watched the broadcast on CNN,
I will submit
a follow-up post with my review.

Subject: RE: BS: review: Three Identical Strangers (film)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Feb 19 - 01:56 PM

I saw it during its theatrical release. It's worth seeing. I also remembered the men being on talk shows like Phil Donahue's after they'd met. Clips from that and other shows were incorporated into this film.

Subject: RE: BS: review: Three Identical Strangers (film)
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Feb 19 - 06:08 PM

Here is a link to the Wikipedia article on the psychiatrist,
Peter B. Neubauer.
I guess there would be an M. D. after Neubauer's name.
It's missing from Wikipedia.

After I read a summary of Neubauer's study and designs
on the triplets profiled in Three Identical Strangers,
I was scandalized, and it seems
I'm not the only one who feels that way.

Subject: RE: BS: review: Three Identical Strangers (film)
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Feb 19 - 06:32 PM

After viewing the finished film,
the adoptee subjects and the film director
sit for an interview.

Subject: review: Three Identical Strangers (film) SPOILERS
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Feb 19 - 11:21 PM

Wow, just now turned off the [guest room] television
and I am so emotional that
I will probably have trouble sleeping tonight.

The intent of this film was to engage the audience emotionally,
and it surely works. I'm kind of wobbly-trembly in fact.

At the same time, a part of me hangs back, detached, and observes:
Whoever made this film was very careful and conscientious about things.

The men in question all got married, held down jobs, had families.
The spouses are interviewed, and the family members who helped raised
them as children, the friends who grew up with them.

The children of these men, however, are not interviewed in the film;
so those relationships are curtained in privacy.

naw. I can't do a review right now. I'm too bowled over.
This film packs a heck of a punch.
Thanks for listening, anyhow, sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: review: Three Identical Strangers (film)
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Feb 19 - 02:27 PM

You know what?
I'm going to let others do the reviewing. Call me lazy.
I'm still knocked for a loop by watching the television broadcast.

I don't know what quantity of people have viewed the film,
but there is a lot of commentary on the Internet about it.

Subject: RE: BS: review: Three Identical Strangers (film)
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Feb 19 - 10:01 PM

I saw it... to me, it was 20% interesting data about genetics.. and 80% maudlin hype... They could have told that sad story with much less repetition and stretching of the interviews ... but then it would not have had the lurid appeal that got it on those daytime talk shows originally.