At the beginning of the Netflix documentary Tell Me Who I Am a British man takes a seat in front of the camera and calmly describes a mystery.
“I don’t know who I am,” he says evenly. “Not just the story of who I am, but really who I am. The real me.”
For Alex Lewis these words are not an exaggeration or metaphorical, but literal. At the age of 18—as we come to understand in the film directed by Ed Perkins—Lewis sustained a traumatic brain injury in a motorcycle accident. He emerged from a coma with no memory of his previous life.
“I didn’t even know my own name,” he shares. “Everything had gone.”
Everything but one important detail. He recognized the 18-year-old young man at his hospital bedside as his twin brother Marcus.
“Even though I wasn’t sure of what was going on around me,...
“I don’t know who I am,” he says evenly. “Not just the story of who I am, but really who I am. The real me.”
For Alex Lewis these words are not an exaggeration or metaphorical, but literal. At the age of 18—as we come to understand in the film directed by Ed Perkins—Lewis sustained a traumatic brain injury in a motorcycle accident. He emerged from a coma with no memory of his previous life.
“I didn’t even know my own name,” he shares. “Everything had gone.”
Everything but one important detail. He recognized the 18-year-old young man at his hospital bedside as his twin brother Marcus.
“Even though I wasn’t sure of what was going on around me,...
- 11/11/2019
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s no accident that when the twin subjects of Ed Perkins‘ documentary, “Tell Me Who I Am,” have their most honest conversation in a setting that looks very bare. “There’s a reason why they’ve never been able to have this conversation in this way in the real world,” Perkins explains in our recent webchat (watch the exclusive video above). “We’re going to build a sterile space that is very unnatural and ask them if they want to come to this space that we created for this purpose and allow a conversation to happen there,” he adds.
SEENetflix schedule: Here’s what is coming and leaving in November 2019
“Tell Me Who I Am,” which recently premiered on Netflix, chronicles identical twins Alex Lewis and Marcus Lewis. At age 18, Alex woke up in a hospital after a motorcycle accident with near-total amnesia. The only thing he recognized was his twin brother.
SEENetflix schedule: Here’s what is coming and leaving in November 2019
“Tell Me Who I Am,” which recently premiered on Netflix, chronicles identical twins Alex Lewis and Marcus Lewis. At age 18, Alex woke up in a hospital after a motorcycle accident with near-total amnesia. The only thing he recognized was his twin brother.
- 11/6/2019
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
The premise is irresistible: After a motorcycle accident, 18-year-old Alex Lewis wakes up in an English hospital and sees a man and a woman on either side of his bed. He instantly recognizes his twin brother Marcus, but doesn’t know his mother. Marcus starts to fill in Alex’s empty, amnesiac brain with all the people, places, and things he needs to know in order to function at home, at school, and in the world.
But Marcus creates an alternate reality from the one they actually grew up in. He paints a prettier picture of Lewis family life, invents vacations they never took, and leaves things out, including their childhood sexual abuse. After the brothers first told their story to The Sunday Times, followed by 2013 U.K. bestseller “Tell Me Who I Am,” young British documentary filmmaker Ed Perkins chased them down and spent five years working with them to dig deeper.
But Marcus creates an alternate reality from the one they actually grew up in. He paints a prettier picture of Lewis family life, invents vacations they never took, and leaves things out, including their childhood sexual abuse. After the brothers first told their story to The Sunday Times, followed by 2013 U.K. bestseller “Tell Me Who I Am,” young British documentary filmmaker Ed Perkins chased them down and spent five years working with them to dig deeper.
- 10/23/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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