Screenings: Sydney Film Festival 2018 | State theater | 9:30am morning show
It is a documentary with the narrative technique of detective and suspense drama, based on in-depth social reports, the argumentation process has the rigor of academic papers, and the final conception is high enough to philosophical debate. Three twins who have been separated for 19 years have discovered a dark academic conspiracy after a news entertainment reality show binge. The entire viewing process is like a jigsaw puzzle, and the director keeps giving you new pieces. Armed with new information, we have a completely different interpretation of the motivation and logic of the whole thing.
I feel that the director actually wants to express a lot through the entry of nature vs nurture. I appreciate that the director presents many points of view with a neutral attitude. In fact, humans have always been like this. He has been persevering in borrowing science and technology to try to open up the perspective of God.
After the film ended, a question remained in my mind: if the motive is for the common well-being of human society, can the fate and happiness of individuals be sacrificed?
The beginning of a story is always good - triplets meet
Decades ago, on the first day of college, Bob entered the campus and was greeted warmly by many people, and even hot girls came up to kiss him directly. At this point he thought—no (this is not a car to kindergarten!) It wasn't until someone called him Eddy that he realized that others had mistaken him for someone who looked exactly like him.
Then he called eddy and found out that he and eddy have the same birthday. They were both adopted by their current parents at the same adoption agency (Louise Wise Services). Yes, they are long-lost twins! At the time, it made the headlines! Then, even worse, a young man named David saw the news. He found out that he looked exactly like the twins, had the same birthday, and was adopted at the same institution!
After the three-part set reunited, they hit it off at first sight, and their feelings were too good. Because their story is so bloody - 1) the triplets were adopted by three different families, 2) and the three families happened to represent three different social classes - wealthy, middle-class, and blue-collar working class; 3) There is a sister of the same age in the family of the three!
They were stars at the time, going to a lot of reality talk shows and even cameo appearances in movies. Their triplets bar gimmick is comparable to the current Internet celebrity shop!
The Force of Evil - Louise Wise Services Adoption Agency Appears
At a time when the mass media are binge-consuming the story of triplets, and are surprised that they have not grown up together in 19 years, but still have an amazing tacit understanding. The adoptive parents of the three families went to Louise Wise Services, an adoption agency, for a statement. Why didn't the agency tell them when they were adopting children that it was triplets. Why forcibly dismantle them! ! !
The growling parents left disappointed, and the head of the agency gave a very perfunctory answer indifferently and politely, because they felt that if it was triplets, it might be difficult to adopt.
The next day, a sociologist studying the field of human genetics discovered a collection of archives. The archives in which the volume was sealed indicate that a well-known Yale professor in the field of psychotherapy conducted an experiment in the 1960s. That is, an environment in which abandoned twins are artificially divided into different family backgrounds. The partner institution for the experiment was the adoption institution where the triplets were entrusted at the time.
The triplets began to gradually recall that when they were very young, some researchers would come to the house every once in a while to do various intellectual and cognitive experiments on themselves. They claim to the child's adoptive parents to study the development of the adopted child.
The initiator of the experiment is Dr Peter Neubauer, a well-known American professor in the field of clinical psychology.
Yes, revelers, Professor Ben has let you down! What you think of as a coincidence is simply a man-made experimental design hahahaha! ——(Brain supplement: The professor laughed and drove the crane west, his old man has passed away.)
But that's still not the whole story. Why did the experiment go on without publishing the results?
If the results of the experiment are really what the public guessed, it means that acquired environmental factors actually have little effect on genes (because even if the triplets were separated for 19 years and grew up in a completely different environment, their hobbies, the choice of mates, Vision, and many habits are still the same.), so why not publish the results?
The core personnel who participated in the experiment were reluctant to be interviewed. And the professor has passed away. The thread is broken here.
Eddy, who has always existed only in the form of images in that documentary
Eddy of the triplets shot himself because of manic depression. Then more twins, who were artificially separated at the time, were discovered by the media.
Most of them had a history of mental illness. Retrospectively, their biological parents appear to have had a history of mental illness. All these clues point to an even more uncomfortable research motivation-the relationship between psychosis and heredity.
But this still cannot be determined. The professor who initiated the experiment at the time has died, because the research may also involve many extremely important political figures, and the relevant files are also encrypted and cannot be opened until 50 years later.
Behind the experiment, those terrifying details
In the film, the doubts presented by the teaching assistants who participated in the research at the time and the interviews with the subjects under study were all terrifying.
First of all, let's briefly talk about the family environment of the triplets. They have the same psychopathic genes. Why did Eddy commit suicide in the end, while Bob and David were still alive and well? A very intuitive answer is - the difference in the way of family education.
Although David's family is only a blue-collar family, his father is very cheerful. No matter what dreams and behaviors David wants to chase, he is proud of David and gives him the most sunny encouragement. In the wealthy family where Bob grew up, his parents used more guided and inquiry-based education.
Eddy grew up in a family with a parenting style that was most incompatible with his own original character. His father was a traditional strict father, and he was stern, while Eddy was a very sensitive child who was eager to express himself.
At the end of the film, a professor who had participated in the research for a year appeared on the scene for an interview with his real name.
Because he left the experimental team early, he did not know what the final conclusion of the experiment was. It is also not known whether the purpose of the experiment is related to psychosis.
But what can be seen from his experimental notes is that after visiting Eddy at home, he wrote - "Eddy's father is too strict with tradition, and his home education model is in conflict with the nature of Eddy's children. This may The child is not developing well."
But for experimental design reasons, these interview records were only used as material for research analysis, so they were never shown to Eddy's parents. The experimenters also had no means of interfering with Eddy's parents' homeschooling patterns. Because that's actually part of the experimental design at all.
In other words, when the three families were originally selected to adopt the triplets, the researchers had actually observed the parenting styles of the three families in advance. That's why the triplets happen to have three older sisters who are also adopted.
This interview was shown to David, and after a huge silence, he said something we all might have wanted to say: "There are people in this world who aren't born with the environment right? So they deserve to be damned?"
The final subtitle states: "After the film was released, the agency declassified to David and Bob the specific results and conclusions of the experiment."
However, because there are at least 50 pairs of twins involved in the research, the file still cannot be declassified to the public because it does not want to cause panic among the whole people. The relevant institutions have no intention to contact the twins who are the subjects of the study for the time being. The director asked the old lady who participated in the research at that time: "Don't you think that these research materials should at least be disclosed to the research subjects at that time?"
The one who lived to the age of 80 or 90 said: "Look at it from another angle. Don't tell them. Wouldn't it be good to let them live as they were?"
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