Review of Three Identical Strangers (2018) by Ginak — 08 Jul 2018

Documentaries are hard to find in movie houses these days. Gone are the days when you could see films by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris fairly regularly. However, Tim Wardle’s “Three Identical Strangers” is a worthy successor to the films of these great documentarians and you might be able to see it locally.

What makes this film worth your time? First of all, it is well-made technically and not only keeps you interested with “just the facts” but it also does what all great documentaries do – it asks penetrating questions and debates ideas (for example, nature vs nurture and should cold logical science be applied dispassionately to human subjects regardless of the damage that might be done).

But you don’t need to think about these serious topics to enjoy it as a weird tale of what happens to these “three identical strangers.