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Post by stephen on Sept 26, 2018 0:43:15 GMT
2018 is proving to be a hell of a year for documentaries. At the top of the pile for me is Three Identical Strangers, a chronicle of a bizarre happenstance that leads to the unlikeliest of reunions, which spins into the realm of the truly unbelievable and heartbreaking. I don’t want to say too much about the story because I feel like going into it without researching it will be much more enlightening in the actual experience. But I will say that it is one of the best docs I’ve seen this decade.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Sept 26, 2018 2:23:50 GMT
I wasn’t a fan of how it felt like two different movies spliced together. I mean, I get why, but after a while it’s like the central figures stopped being important. It’s a good movie, like real good, but I’m in the Won’t You Be My Neighbor? camp.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Sept 26, 2018 6:17:08 GMT
I wasn’t a fan of how it felt like two different movies spliced together. I mean, I get why, but after a while it’s like the central figures stopped being important. It’s a good movie, like real good, but I’m in the Won’t You Be My Neighbor? camp. I sort of see what you mean, but to me the documentary went from good (focusing on just the brothers) to great later on precisely because it chose to broaden the scope in order to explore some bigger issues that extend beyond the main subjects. They never stopped being important to me so much as they were an exemplar case study of something much larger and unsettling. |
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