{"id":22211,"date":"2018-10-31T13:36:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T03:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=22211"},"modified":"2018-10-31T13:36:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T03:36:57","slug":"three-identical-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=22211","title":{"rendered":"Three Identical Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Director:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Tim Wardle
\nCast:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Eddy Galland, Bobby Shafran, David Kellman<\/p>\n

I<\/span>n the summer of 1980, freshman Bobby Shafran goes to college on his first day only to find that everyone is familiar with him.\u00a0 They greet him with smiles, hugs and hellos.\u00a0 This confuses Bobby as he doesn’t know any of these people and it’s literally his first day there.\u00a0 Eventually someone greets him as Eddy.\u00a0 He corrects them and explains that his name is Bobby.\u00a0 They insist he’s Eddy.\u00a0 The exchange goes back and forth until Bobby determines that someone attending this college is\u00a0his exact double.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>When Bobby and Eddy meet, it is a revelation.\u00a0 Both are adopted.\u00a0 They realise that they have been separated at birth and by a stroke of incredible luck, they have been reunited.<\/p>\n

The story makes the news.\u00a0 It’s one of those human interest stories that, in the days before the Internet, is enough to propel them to fame for a number of weeks.\u00a0 They do interviews on morning shows and have an article written up about them in all the major papers.\u00a0 That’s where someone else reads about Bobby and Eddy and remarks how much they look like David.\u00a0 David Kellman is the same age as Bobby and Eddy, also adopted, and when he too notices the incredible resemblance, he reaches out to them.\u00a0 They’re triplets.\u00a0 Triplets separated at birth to adopting parents unfamiliar with their siblings, reunited nineteen years later in incredible circumstances.<\/p>\n

Although the story beggars belief, it turns out\u00a0Three Identical Strangers<\/em> is only just getting started.<\/p>\n

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To go into\u00a0Three Identical Strangers<\/em> knowing as little as possible is the best way to experience this film.\u00a0 The miraculous tale of how the three were reunited is fascinating but truth be told, it still sounds like the type of story that could be encapsulated in an evening news segment and that would just about cover it.<\/p>\n

What makes this documentary so damn fascinating is that the story of the triplets getting reunited is just the beginning.\u00a0 Director Tim Wardle steers the film down a path that explores the idea of nature versus nurture.\u00a0 The triplets have been apart their entire lives up to that point, grew up with parents in three different socio-economic backgrounds, and yet they shared an uncanny number of similarities.\u00a0 What makes a man?<\/em> the film asks.\u00a0 That these three could grow up in such different circumstances and yet be so similar in their interests and their personalities.<\/p>\n

We learn what the\u00a0triplets did in the immediate aftermath of their sudden fame.\u00a0 Basically, they cashed in.\u00a0 They opened a themed restaurant in New York and partied at Club 54 with socialites.\u00a0 They grew up, they got married, had kids and…that’s when the film asks another question that completely flips the story on its head.\u00a0\u00a0Why did this happen?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>How could triplets be separated without their adoptive parents being told.\u00a0 Who was their mother?\u00a0 What is going on here?<\/p>\n

And that’s where the film really<\/em> goes some places I didn’t expect.\u00a0 You should know that there isn’t any ambiguity about this story.\u00a0\u00a0Three Identical Strangers\u00a0<\/em>definitively answers why the triplets were separated and who arranged it.\u00a0 The answers are quite astonishing.\u00a0 The documentary then doubles back on exploring the triplets themselves.\u00a0 What makes them who they are.\u00a0 Superficially they had some common interests but what are they like as individuals?<\/p>\n

Three Identical Strangers<\/em> is an incredible documentary.\u00a0 It starts as a human interest story.\u00a0 It asks questions about our childhoods and what makes us who we are.\u00a0 Then it unravels an incredible mystery that is at the heart of what happened to these three young men that had me shaking my head in utter disbelief.<\/p>\n

There’s a sadness and darkness at the heart of this story.\u00a0 Ultimately, it’s a story about trauma, mental health and parenthood.\u00a0 I can’t imagine what it must have been like to be any of these three men.\u00a0 The circumstances around their lives are truly bizarre.\u00a0 Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they’re triplets who were separated at birth. Then they discover why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[451,2783],"class_list":["post-22211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films","tag-documentary","tag-triplets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22260,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22211\/revisions\/22260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}