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
- Indiewire
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