This is hardly the stuff of a documentary. This is just some 15 year old girl who is always pointing a camera at herself who had an interesting experience. It would make a good three page article. Watching her announce "I need to pee" on skype is hardly riveting.
It is interesting how the French girl is so much more mature, and, oddly, speaks English better than her American sister.
Please grow a heart.
share@wrlord2001 - Stop nit picking. Its a feel good, happy story about two sisters finding each other. It's based on facts hence a documentary. Go watch the doc on Malala or something if you want something deeper.
shareAs if a documentary needs to meet your criteria.
shareI had a similar impression, that it would've been better off 20 minutes long or a news article. I thought it felt like a long vlog and didn't offer insights in a similar way to what I'm used to in documentaries. But it was something new I guess, something that's more an emotional investment and interpretation rather than intellectual contemplation. I have a feeling these types of documentaries are only going to become more common in coming years.
Do you realize that the American twin is the writer and producer of this documentary? It is her chosen career so she wanted to make it like any other feature length documentary.
Yet I don't share the impressions that it was too long, I enjoyed seeing all of it, the content was well chosen and interesting to me, but I have a long-held interest in the subject, identical twins separated at birth then reunited as adults.
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I know that. I was just saying that I had similar thoughts about the film, but I don't entirely agree with OP. It was more that I wasn't used to watching a documentary that didn't have a larger discussion about the subject matter, like with professionals and such. But I can't complain as it's sort of a new style of documentary that's Kickstarter-funded and influenced by social media, so I guess it shouldn't be surprising for it to be shot somewhat similarly to a travelogue or video log on Youtube.
I guess I just wasn't engaged by it the whole way, but it was an interesting story and some of their reactions and interactions were amusing.
Yeah I know what you mean. I had been really looking forward to it but I found it could have been shorter/better edited to be more documentary-like. It was fun to watch their experience but it didn't really go into anything more than that. Idk, having twin experts interviewed might have been a bit weird, but it didn't really have any sort of background at all and a lot of it was first person/amateur style.
shareThank you for this! Made me day. Classy and riveting! 😂
shareWhile I'm flattered by the interest, what's your point?
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Were you expecting them to uncover an alternative explanation for the formation of the universe? A cure for cancer, perhaps? An in-depth undercover look at Korean adoption services?
It did what it said on the tin and it did it very well.