📺 #netflixandchill #documentary Watching “Tell Me Who I Am”, a unique documentary which opens on a tragedy: in 1982, Alex Lewis woke up from a three-month coma after a motorcycle crash and could remember nothing about his life except for one thing: the face of his identical twin brother, Marcus Lewis. The new documentary about the brothers, which debuted on Netflix on Oct. 18 following a successful festival run, gradually unspools the consequences of a decision made by Marcus, suddenly the holder of all of his brother’s memories, to paint a picture of a happy life—withholding the reality that their mother had abused the boys throughout their childhoods. Shot in a studio space built for the brothers to confront, for the first time, the emotional distance brought on by the secrets Marcus kept, the film offers a strikingly intimate portrait of the now middle-aged twins coming to terms with the facts of their lives. “It played out like a psychological thriller. And yet it was true,” Ed Perkins, the film’s director says. “I was fascinated by the themes of brotherhood, the blurring of fact and fiction, memory and the question of who we are if we lose our memory.” Between Alex and Marcus lie decades of guilt, confusion and deep sadness over what’s remained unsaid. As the men explain in the film, after 18-year-old Alex woke up from his coma unable to remember anything, from his own name to where he was, he returned home with his family to start rebuilding his identity. Full @time interview: The Story Behind Netflix Documentary 'Tell Me Who I Am' | Time https://time.com/5706370/tell-me-who-i-am-netflix-true-story/ #tellmewhoiam @netflix #reallife #alexlewis #marcuslewis #twins #tragedy #childabuse https://www.instagram.com/p/B4_y0AHHfBL/?igshid=dnryqjzt8b4y
