Have finally watched “Three Identical Strangers” (my fellow Brits, you can find it for free on Channel 4). Absolutely mind-boggling and one of the most powerful documentaries I’ve recently seen (another one is “Abducted in Plain Sight,” a notorious case of a double abduction of Jo Broberg, but it’s a whole other story). I do agree with a premise made about this movie by a critic from “Vulture”: “It starts like a bubbly tabloid fairy tale which quickly enters a dark and tragic corner.”
Fair enough: a famous headline from the early 80s about young handsome Jewish boys who suddenly bumped into each other in a community college and then became a true American sensation in just days, transforms in front of our eyes into an absolutely heartless and deeply unethical experiment conducted by a famous psychiatrist, who wanted to find out what, after all, prevails in human development, nature or nurture.
I won’t leave lots of spoilers for you—although the narrative is predictable in places, it doesn’t make it less uncanny—but the easiness with which certain individuals would play god, is freakish. That’s why you never know anymore how many real Doppelgängers are out there.
Highly recommend.
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