Tell Me Who I Am

The best way to watch this is to see it without reading anything about it including any reviews. Its unsettling and deeply moving. My only criticism is that it feels a bit repetitive towards the middle portion and the pace slackened while they could have explored the history a bit more.

I was able to watch this film without reading about it prior. It touched me to the core and I came out of the theatre a changed person. Very few films have ever had that effect on me. This film is relevant on so many levels. It will encourage people to be true to themselves and not keep dark secrets under wraps they suffered as children, often causing pain they carry for a lifetime and in many cases destroy lives - I commend the twins, Marcus and Alex Lewis in this wonderful doc for their bravery to come forward and share their lives' journeys with us. Beautiful job by director Ed Perkins who tells the story with so much integrity in a cinematic way. Even though shocking, this film is inspiring, empowering and will bring about change. Bravo!

I love documentaries and all things English, so I was attracted to this documentary immediately. The storyline of these brothers also tweaked my attention. Without telling too much...this is an extraordinary story and shot in such a way that makes it feel a bit like a spooky, foggy horror. It is not explicit but often blurry, with shots of the house and drive and trees, which bothered me at first but made sense in the end. I loved the cinematography. These 2 lovely twin brothers are so likeable...so honest about their feelings...I applaud them. As hard as it was to watch at times, I was sorry when it was over. I highly recommend this exceptional doc.

This is like The Truman Show meets What's Eating Gilbert Grape, except it's real. The story is so sad but in some strange way still infused with beauty and love. The metaphors are the most powerful I have ever seen. I truly applaud the courage of these two brothers who started together, were torn apart, and finally made it back to each other despite the darkness they both experienced in their own way. Truly a work of art and a labor of love.

First let me start by saying I loved the documentary, and found it both distburing and beautiful at the same time. There were some questions I was left with at the end but overall, I recommend it.

I was quite surprised though when I saw people in the reviews on here questioning if this could all even be real, or whether it was some sort of story the brothers put together. I've seen some mention of whether someone could wake up and only recognize one thing (in this case, his twin brother) but the fact remains that we actually know very little about the brain. We don't even know how many neurons are in the brain, and you'd think that would be a good starting point of something we'd know by now, but it's still uncertain. Strange things happen within the brain and just recently a woman in the UAE woke from a vegetative state after 28 years, she is now speaking in conversations and undergoing physical therapy. The fact remains that the brain is a mystery and how it exactly works is based a lot on theory, in fact there's an entire field called brain theory.

The second thing I saw criticized was the question of how a 14 year old boy could take a subway home and no one think anything was out of place (in 1978). And those who make this comment obviously have no understanding of British culture. As someone who lives in England I'm here to tell you if "minding your business" was an Olympic sport, the UK would win every year. People don't even like to look at each other on the subway here. So for a teenager to take the subway at home by himself in the late 70's and no one be concerned or question anything is totally believable to me, someone who currently lives in London.

I feel the people who are nit-picking are doing so because the story is just so remarkable perhaps. But the fact remains we know very little of the brain and how it heals itself after trauma. And that is a scary fact.