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Post by marion on Feb 22, 2019 15:37:47 GMT
Channel 4, 9.00, Thursday 28 February.
This documentary is about three young men in America who discover at 19 that they are triplets, separated at birth, who meet by chance. I know this story (but won't spoil it) as there was a big article recently in a Sunday paper but it sounds like a fascinating watch which goes into the adoption system too. They did achieve some level of celebrity in the USA.
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Post by cakewalk on Feb 22, 2019 17:17:38 GMT
I remember hearing about this. I'm sure there was a programme about them at the time. Perhaps it was a feature on something like The One Show.
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Post by Delia on Feb 26, 2019 11:41:06 GMT
I heard about it somewhere, too. I will look in on this programme as I find it fascinating when twins are separated and then find each other, often finding that they have much in common in spite of being brought up in different environments.
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Post by Delia on Mar 1, 2019 7:58:09 GMT
Wow! - and Wow! again. This was gripping, as there were many more revelations after the first obviously fascinating part of their each discovering their brothers.
The whole thing turned into a drama as there was a lot more to the story than it seemed at first. A good watch, and although long, it all passed in the wink of an eye as it was so much more than just a reuniting of a family, and asked many ethical questions, too.
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Post by profbooboo on Mar 1, 2019 16:54:04 GMT
I know, Delia, wasn't it fascinating. When they found each other and found they had a lot of similarities but the families they'd been adopted to were socially different, and it was only when the Journalist Lawrence Wright started an article about twins that he discovered the truth about the agency. The agency was acting like the movie Trading Places, taking these three children and adding them to a rich, middle and working class families, and monitoring the out come.
I wonder if all this would still be hidden if not for the Journalist? The triplets found each other by chance but the fact it was an experiment could still have been hidden. And I'm not sure if any have received compensation as, I don't think, a crime has been committed. It's unethical but I don't think a crime. And the findings have never been published so these peoples lives have been turned upside down for nothing. And the ending is tragic, Eddy killed himself and the revelation that there could still be seperated twins who don't know.
An interesting documentary.
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Post by marion on Mar 1, 2019 17:25:41 GMT
I've just watched this and my blood was up by the end! That assistant to Professor Neubauer and the analyst seemed to be smirking during their interviews. What gits! And I know some papers have now been released, but redacted so you can't learn much, but honestly Yale Library and the Jewish Board for whatever should be ashamed of themselves IMVHO. I found it really interesting when the female twins popped up and would have liked to have heard a bit more about them.
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Post by cakewalk on Mar 1, 2019 19:14:50 GMT
I watched this too. It was fascinating in one sense, but horrifying in another. A very callous way of treating people.
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Post by vicky on Mar 2, 2019 22:02:30 GMT
I've just finished watching this and had exactly the same feelings as marion about the two surviving assistants. They showed no remorse or any indication that what they had participated in might be wrong. It all smacked of Nazi Germany to me and I find it so hard to comprehend that this was being done by Jews to Jews so soon after the war and in America of all places. What an horrific story.
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Post by linseed on Mar 2, 2019 22:17:17 GMT
I just watched it too, and agree with the comments that it seemed like Nazi Germany. Just horrible that they did that. And that there are still people around who have twin siblings and don’t know it- I should think that anyone who had been placed by that adoption agency should be asking a lot of questions now.
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Post by marion on Mar 3, 2019 15:33:03 GMT
I'm only saying this based on the US legal dramas I watch, but they seem to like a class action over there! Let's hope in the light of this film some of the twins start one. (I know the adoption agency is no more.)
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Post by profbooboo on Mar 3, 2019 20:19:30 GMT
I'm not sure Marion, I'd have thought if there was a legal case one or more would have tried to sue by now. I'm not sure they've broken any law though? It's unethical and immoral but perhaps not illegal. And anything that might incriminate them is locked away. I'd like to think that they could get some money as their lives have been turned upside down. But if they did sue would the unknown twins have to be revealed so they could share in the compensation?
It's so complex. A fascinating documentary, especially as I'm thinking about it days later which doesn't usually happen.
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Post by profbooboo on Dec 16, 2019 21:30:04 GMT
This is repeated at 10pm tonight on C4.
11pm on C4+1
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Anymore to come?
