Show & Tell: Three Identical Strangers
All:
So, with the exhilarating, sometimes stomach-churning, thrill ride of Telluride by the Sea behind us, it’s time to return to what passes for normal life in New England as the season is close to officially turning.
And as we exchange Market Square’s crop of tourists in summer shirts and cargo shorts for a crop of tourists dressed in fall sweaters (and cargo shorts), we can resume our quiet appreciation of the cinematic masterpieces that flow quietly through The Music Hall in every month of the year.
Today (Tuesday, September 18), we will be discussing the third in this year’s trilogy of absolutely compelling documentaries. We’ve done Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Won’t You Be My Neighbor, two movies with fascinating characters at their centers. And now we get to talk about Three Identical Strangers, a movie with three fascinating characters at its center.
The ideal presentation of the case for Three Identical Strangers would be a simple: “You’ve got to see this movie.”
And that’s because the less you know about the story the better. T.I.S.is really a heart-warming family reunion story crossed with a detective story crossed with a 60 Minutes exposé. And you want to be as ignorant as possible as the canoe pushes out into the river and heads for the falls.
Personally, I didn’t even know that identical triplets existed. But the idea that such a group of babies could be unaware of one another’s existence is just crazy.
But this craziness really happened. And the story will warm your heart and then chill your soul. It’s that kind of movie.
And I think it will be the grist for a perfectly wonderful discussion. So I hope to see you at The Historic Theater at 7:00 tonight.
And you might want to mark your October calendar for discussions of Puzzle on Tuesday, October 16 and BlacKKKlansman on Tuesday, October 30. (And you really don’t want to miss that one if it got by you and the MallPlexx 95.)
Paul Goodwin
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