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Tell Me Who I Am
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Would you give someone you love the "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" cure if you could? Meaning, would you erase painful recollections on their behalf, just to take their lifelong ache away? It's a good question to ponder while settling into University Accolade-nominated filmmaker Ed Perkins' "Tell Me Who I Am," which contemplates the part of memory, raising ethical questions around familial honesty and responsibility through the true, even so stranger-than-fiction story of real-life identical twins Alex and Marcus Lewis. While information technology's hard to do complete justice to their heartbreaking tale involving a dark, traumatic babyhood, Perkins deserves all the credit for treating information technology with the respect and care that it deserves.
The results are a tad standard from a filmmaking standpoint. In the disciplined fashion of Bart Layton'southward "The Imposter," Perkins weaves together reenactments and first-person accounts with little artistic risk, seldom reaching the narrative jolts and scale of the superb "Three Identical Strangers," Tim Wardle'south shocking documentary almost identical triplets. Only this is a different, more than intimate kind of movie, with a cumulative emotional bear on that is nothing short of devastating. Know that there will be major spoilers alee; one can't write about "Tell Me Who I Am" without getting into the details of what the Lewis siblings, well into their 50s now, accept endured both as kids and adults grappling with survival wounds. The brothers were built-in and raised in a town right outside of London and were shaken to their core when the 18-year-old Alex had a near-fatal motorcycle blow in 1982, waking up from his prolonged coma to remember nothing and no one but his brother Marcus.
It was a new start for Alex, with the unplanned parental duties of re-educational activity him everything falling onto his other half. For the next decade and alter, Marcus would take Alex under his wing, educating the developed newborn on things he forgot, from the most basic to the near complex. Just more importantly, he would reconstruct his brother's sense of identity by reminding him most their mutual history brick past brick—a happy, ordinary childhood total of rosy days, family vacations and such, always with their mother Jill past their side. Marcus congenital information technology all from the ground up like a carefully curated instagram feed for his brother. Except, information technology was all a lie, told with humanly intuitions guided past love, through instincts both protective and therapeutic. The truth came much afterwards when the hard-partying, hardcore hoarder Jill died of cancer in 1995, leaving her sons with a massive dwelling house filled with layers and layers of revelations, much unlike than the dust-pink social media-esque scroll Alex was made to browse and accept.
Revealing these appalling facts similar the pieces of a puzzle in a thriller, Perkins recreates segments of the 2 men's childhood home and gives us distressing glimpses of objects, the most upsetting of them (at least for a brusk while) beingness Christmas and birthday presents the brothers never got to open in their youth. But then a more troubling, fifty-fifty sickening, detail appears—a photograph of Alex and Marcus as fully naked young kids, with their heads cut off. This particular discovery leads the already suspicious Alex to ask the inevitable tough question. He learns (as we do), that Jill had abused them sexually for years, and also enabled others in her circumvolve to routinely rape her sons. Spelled out by the film in disturbing nonetheless necessary detail, the grim reality sends the then thirty-something Alex off to yet another journeying of self-rediscovery. But this time, with the lack of a clean slate, the work required from him would be much harder. How would one cope with something so hurtful, and motility frontwards in life knowing that his most trusted ally has been lying to him all these years?
Having jointly published a memoir back in 2012, the twins have already been on a long, undoubtedly arduous journeying of understanding and forgiveness to find some semblance of closure. So when they sit down face to face in "Tell Me Who I Am," and decide there wouldn't be any more lies between them, at that place is a detectable layer of artificiality in their manners—it's not really a resolution we're witnessing in real-fourth dimension. Still, their tangible shared pain rapidly turns an bad-mannered performativeness into a most 18-carat therapy session, 1 that is both convincing and uplifting to observe. Unsurprisingly, you root for Alex, feeling his hurt and loneliness. And along the way, you hold Marcus just as dear, realizing the alternate reality he created for his brother was both an act of love and a tactic of survival. Perkins' greatest feat as a filmmaker is gently guiding the viewer to that mutual place of understanding.
Tomris Laffly
Tomris Laffly is a freelance motion-picture show writer and critic based in New York. A fellow member of the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC), she regularly contributes to RogerEbert.com, Variety and Time Out New York, with bylines in Filmmaker Magazine, Moving-picture show Periodical International, Vulture, The Playlist and The Wrap, among other outlets.
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Tell Me Who I Am (2019)
85 minutes
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