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Alissa Wilkinson covers film & culture for Vox. Alissa is a member of the new york Film Critics Circle & the National Society of Film Critics.
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Tell Me Who I Am
The premise: Decades ago, 18-year-old Alex Lewis woke up from a motorcycle accident to lớn discover his memory was completely gone. All Alex knew was that his twin Marcus was his brother và that he could trust Marcus as he rebuilt his life. But Marcus was holding something back.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
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What it’s about: It’s tricky to tell a story lượt thích Alex & Marcus’s in a documentary without stepping over an ethical line that exploits personal tragedy fo just another suspenseful “twist.” Tell Me Who I Am narrowly but successfully pulls it off by letting the brothers delve into the rawness of their relationship.
But it’s still gripping. Alex và Marcus wrote about their experience in a 2013 book by the same name but left many of the details vague about what actually happened in their lives. Tell Me Who I Am goes further than the book, forcing a confrontation in its third act.
Note: Spoilers for Tell Me Who I Am follow.
The subject of Tell Me Who I Am is twofold: Alex’s quest to figure out who he really is and Marcus’s struggle with whether he should tell his brother the full extent of the trauma they suffered as children. The movie first lays out the story of the accident & Alex’s recovery, letting both brothers tell what happened separately.
Marcus reintroduced Alex khổng lồ their mother, his friends, his whole life. Years later, after Alex had time khổng lồ grow close lớn his family again, their mother died. Và as they sorted through her house, Alex started to suspect something was wrong based on items found in the house. He asked Marcus if they’d been abused as children, và Marcus confirmed as much, but offered no details.
For decades, Alex lived wondering what happened, and Marcus — who had repressed the childhood memories in order khổng lồ be able to function — refused lớn tell him, reasoning that he was protecting his brother by doing so. They lived & worked near one another their whole lives, but the withheld information wore on both of them.
Filmmaker Ed Perkins smartly structures Tell Me Who I Am to lớn build to a meeting between the two brothers in which they nội dung the screen for the first time and talk to one another about what happened, in a raw scene that exposes just how much damage was caused by the abuse (which involves rape and child sex abuse from their mother and other people).
And ultimately, the film is not just a wild và nearly unbelievable story; it’s a rumination on the lasting effects of sexual abuse, the complicated question of “good” lies, và the moral quandary that comes along with withholding painful information. There’s no easy solution to the situation Alex and Marcus found themselves in — but in Tell Me Who I Am, they start making steps toward healing.
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