davids
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And that his wife is in some ways even more disturbing.
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Daytripper
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Rain in my Heart
About the effects and long term consequences of alcoholism. A difficult watch at times but to its credit it’s showing how it is
About the effects and long term consequences of alcoholism. A difficult watch at times but to its credit it’s showing how it is
The papers are locked down legally for decades, so by the time they are open to public viewing all of the twins used in the experiment will be dead / never find out that they ever had a sibling.
What made it even more tragic for me, was that despite everything the Jewish people went through in the Second World War, it was a Jewish " charitable " foundation that paid for it all.
It was almost like a party game, to see what the end result would be.
That Dear Zachary is heartbreaking, preyed on my mind for days afterwards.
davids
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cted
It sounds like the most uplifting New York story — and it initially was.
In 1980, three young men from the area discovered they were long-lost triplets, separated at birth and raised by adoptive parents who had no idea their kids had been part of a set.
But that’s just the jumping-off point for “Three Identical Strangers,” a documentary about the reunion of Bobby Shafran, Eddy Galland and David Kellman that quickly veers from delightful to harrowing. (If you want to see the movie without knowing the entire story, don’t read any further.)
Director Tim Wardle intercuts interviews with Bobby, David and various friends and family members with recreated scenes. There’s also plentiful archival footage of the three grinning, handsome 19-year-olds making the publicity rounds — they even got a cameo in “Desperately Seeking Susan,” at Madonna’s personal invitation — and starting a New York restaurant called, what else, Triplets.
Their camaraderie wasn’t a gimmick; they say they really had an instant connection, but gradually it becomes clear that there were also differences that went deeper than their superficial similar tastes in sports, women and cigarette brands. The triplets were raised in very different families and, it is eventually revealed, this was by design.
An initial visit by the stunned parents to the (now-defunct) Louise Wise adoption agency in New York leads to a trail of increasingly creepy discoveries about a scientific study of separated twins and triplets. The investigation was aided by New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright, who was working on a story about the study.
The young men and their families learn their childhoods were monitored, filmed and documented — under the guise of normal adoptive follow-up — to serve the interests of a psychologist who wanted to test the influences of nature versus nurture. This is little comfort to the three men, all of whom began to reveal longstanding behavioral difficulties, starting with banging their heads on their cribs. You’ll know before you’re told why Galland is absent from the current-day interviews.
Lead researcher Peter Neubauer is deceased, but his now-elderly assistant gives an interview that amounts to, “Eh, what are you gonna do? Times were different then.”
There’s so much dark psychological territory to mine here — more, apparently, than the filmmaker chose to use. The involvement of one of the men in a violent crime, before the discovery of his triplets’ existence, is omitted, perhaps because it can’t be tied neatly to nature or nurture.
Wardle also relies a bit too much on repeat viewings of the same footage, as if to make sure we’ve been paying attention.
He needn’t worry: This is riveting, deeply unsettling stuff.
After jumping through hoops they managed to get sight of some of the research,but what they did see had been heavily redacted.
It sounds like the most uplifting New York story — and it initially was.
In 1980, three young men from the area discovered they were long-lost triplets, separated at birth and raised by adoptive parents who had no idea their kids had been part of a set.
But that’s just the jumping-off point for “Three Identical Strangers,” a documentary about the reunion of Bobby Shafran, Eddy Galland and David Kellman that quickly veers from delightful to harrowing. (If you want to see the movie without knowing the entire story, don’t read any further.)
Director Tim Wardle intercuts interviews with Bobby, David and various friends and family members with recreated scenes. There’s also plentiful archival footage of the three grinning, handsome 19-year-olds making the publicity rounds — they even got a cameo in “Desperately Seeking Susan,” at Madonna’s personal invitation — and starting a New York restaurant called, what else, Triplets.
Their camaraderie wasn’t a gimmick; they say they really had an instant connection, but gradually it becomes clear that there were also differences that went deeper than their superficial similar tastes in sports, women and cigarette brands. The triplets were raised in very different families and, it is eventually revealed, this was by design.
An initial visit by the stunned parents to the (now-defunct) Louise Wise adoption agency in New York leads to a trail of increasingly creepy discoveries about a scientific study of separated twins and triplets. The investigation was aided by New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright, who was working on a story about the study.
The young men and their families learn their childhoods were monitored, filmed and documented — under the guise of normal adoptive follow-up — to serve the interests of a psychologist who wanted to test the influences of nature versus nurture. This is little comfort to the three men, all of whom began to reveal longstanding behavioral difficulties, starting with banging their heads on their cribs. You’ll know before you’re told why Galland is absent from the current-day interviews.
Lead researcher Peter Neubauer is deceased, but his now-elderly assistant gives an interview that amounts to, “Eh, what are you gonna do? Times were different then.”
There’s so much dark psychological territory to mine here — more, apparently, than the filmmaker chose to use. The involvement of one of the men in a violent crime, before the discovery of his triplets’ existence, is omitted, perhaps because it can’t be tied neatly to nature or nurture.
Wardle also relies a bit too much on repeat viewings of the same footage, as if to make sure we’ve been paying attention.
He needn’t worry: This is riveting, deeply unsettling stuff.
...enjoy watching the ‘Brian Johnson’s (AC/DC) a Life on the Road’ - Sky Arts.
Johnson interviews folk like Dolly Parton, Billy Joel, Mick Fleetwood et al. Worth downloading the series and watching when you have a bit of time.
Johnson interviews folk like Dolly Parton, Billy Joel, Mick Fleetwood et al. Worth downloading the series and watching when you have a bit of time.
Minimeister
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Forever Chape
Just really sad.
Just really sad.
Enron Smartest Guys in the Room
The Hunt for Jihadi John on Channel 4.
Brilliantly put together and no agenda.
Horrible and disturbing.
Tracing the path from London teenager, to ISIS poster boy executioner.
Brilliantly put together and no agenda.
Horrible and disturbing.
Tracing the path from London teenager, to ISIS poster boy executioner.
Been watching a very good 6 part doc on BBC 1 - Hometown.
Investigation by a young British born Pakistani journalist into the wave of drug related violence and all it brings amongst the Asian community in West Yorks.
A real eye opener and he pulls no punches.
Investigation by a young British born Pakistani journalist into the wave of drug related violence and all it brings amongst the Asian community in West Yorks.
A real eye opener and he pulls no punches.
tommypotts
Player Valuation: £950k
I thought this was great, but I have to say that it's a period of history I have an interest in so I might be a bit biased.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06wdzd1/bloody-queens-elizabeth-and-mary
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06wdzd1/bloody-queens-elizabeth-and-mary
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