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The Accidental Twins (2024)

The Accidental Twins (2024)

PG-13

netflix

A serviceable documentary details-wise that doesn’t quite live up to the monumental coincidence it’s about

7.0

Movie

Spanish
Documentary
2024
ALESSANDRO ANGULO
84 min

TLDR

He may have been your brother, boy. But he wasn’t your twinnie.

What it's about

Two sets of identical twin brothers get swapped out with the wrong brother at birth and only find out about it in their early adulthood.

The take

The documentary starts off with a feeler that this is a wild soap opera, a real life science experiment that cannot be enacted in good conscience. If you'd never read the blurb, you’d see the coincidences slowly revealed layer by layer until the story finally clicks. Early on, it feels reliant on telling as opposed to showing, but it could just be a case of working with what you have footage-wise. The openness of our main interviewees does get better with time, but the exploration of the psychological effect and implications of such an event was lacking considering the level of coincidence we’re dealing with. All in all, it’s heartwarming, albeit with the exciting story beats very spaced out.

What stands out

Seeing them all play games towards the end was really nice. :(

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