Bobby, it seems you have a long-lost twin named Eddy.Įddy Galland, like Bobby Shafran, was adopted from the Louise Wise Adoption Agency in New York City. “Is your birthday July 12, 1961?” It was. “Are you adopted?” a student asked Bobby. “Eddy’s back! Everyone thought he wasn’t going to come back!” Then someone started to put things together. It’s their incredible story at the center of Three Identical Strangers.įinally, someone started calling him Eddy. And they’re among the rare multiples who actually do know different, and can compare. (Though there’s also security and comfort in that intimate camaraderie.)īut triplets Robert Shafran, David Kellman, and Eddy Galland didn’t always have that camaraderie. It’s as much an intrinsic part of my identity as having blue eyes and brown hair, which can be strange: your identity becomes a category-“the twins!”-instead of a marker of individuality. Second only to, “How are you?” the question I’ve been asked most in my life is, “What is it like being a twin?”-as if I know any different and can compare.
I’ve lived my entire life in a spotlight of fascination because of it.
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Instead, Three Identical Strangerschronicles the unlikely reunion of estranged triplets and a harrowing series of events involving secret psychological experiments, nefarious cover-ups, crippling mental illness, and even death. There is only a fleeting can-you-believe-it charm along the lines of Lindsay Lohan with a British accent discovering Lindsay Lohan with an American accent. But it infuses its story with a dark reality, too, sending a frigid chill up the spine of anyone who thought they were in for a jaunty documentary version of The Parent Trap. nurture debate, and the idea of being separated at birth.
PARK CITY, Utah - Three Identical Strangers, which premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival, is a wild documentary, tickling at our obsession with twins and triplets, the nature vs.
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