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- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 26 m
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 26 m
Summary What if every memory that haunts you could be erased? What if something truly horrific had happened to you and the person who loves you most could wipe that from your mind? Would you want them to? This is the ethical dilemma that 18-year-old Marcus Lewis faced when his identical twin Alex awakened after a motorcycle accident and Marcus w...
Directed By: Ed Perkins
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 26 m
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 26 m
Tell Me Who I Am
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7.4
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Summary What if every memory that haunts you could be erased? What if something truly horrific had happened to you and the person who loves you most could wipe that from your mind? Would you want them to? This is the ethical dilemma that 18-year-old Marcus Lewis faced when his identical twin Alex awakened after a motorcycle accident and Marcus w...
Directed By: Ed Perkins
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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82% Positive
9 Reviews
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18% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
69
82% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
18% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Marked by evolving degrees of miraculous vivacity, dread, despair, and ultimately hope, Tell Me Who I Am reflects a fraternal relationship equally encumbered by truth and lies but strengthened by love and an unflinching revelation in real time. It is utterly staggering.
This remarkable true story is a finely crafted exercise in slow-building suspense, though it works better as a gripping mood piece than as journalistic investigation, its raw confessional style slightly compromised by niggling narrative gaps and dramatic contrivances.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 User Ratings
7.4
71% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
14% Mixed
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3 Ratings
14% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 User Ratings
7.4
71% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
14% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
14% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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It’s hard to imagine a more crystalline look at the suppleness of someone’s self-identity (and the moral dilemma of someone else choosing to overwrite it) than Ed Perkins’ Tell Me Who I Am, a documentary so harrowing and horrific that it can only bear to scratch at the surface of its remarkable story.
Their tangible shared pain quickly turns an awkward performativeness into a most genuine therapy session, one that is both disarming and uplifting to observe.
In its most rewardingly complicated moments, this absorbing, incomplete documentary reminds us that there is nothing definitive about what we think we know.
Their moment of resolution at the end is very moving, but the movie also testifies that while love and forgiveness can ameliorate suffering, it can’t really wipe it all away.
In the documentary, the director appears to be interviewing the twins separately, but he’s really just filming them as they recite their own story. They’ve chosen their words carefully; they cry on cue; and they share just enough, while holding back an enormous amount of information.
I don’t think I’ve ever watched something so heart breaking in my life. I said to my partner 15 mins into ‘oh, turn this off babe, sounds **** (not reading any description) I’ve only cried at ‘my sisters keeper’ and this... this, I don’t even know.. the twin who knows everything says he’s a coward for not telling him the truth. You are nothing of the sort my friend, you are amazing people who can make change! Sending lots of love
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This is SUCH a frustrating doc. The two subjects are horribly repetitive. The majority of the film is them rewording and rephrasing the same core sentiments. There's maybe 15 minutes of information in the 90 minute run time. It's all filler, tears on cue, and cliches about memory.
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Production Company
Lightbox
Release Date Oct 18, 2019
Duration 1 h 26 m
Rating TV-MA
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Awards
British Independent Film Awards
• 1 Nomination
Music City Film Critics' Association Awards
• 1 Nomination
Music + Sound Awards, UK
• 1 Nomination
