Rating: M - Contains Offensive Language.Duration: 92 mins.
Genre: Documentary.
Actors: N/A.
Release Date: Available now.
Imagine suddenly discovering that you’re on a train, travelling through a part of the city that you don’t recognise. You’re not even sure of how you even got on the train, so you decide to get off at the next stop and try and orientate yourself.
When you get off the train, nothing is familiar, and then it dawns on you, that you actually don’t even know who you are.
In this gripping, if somewhat unexciting, documentary we follow Doug Bruce as he goes from total amnesia to discovering parts of who he was and onto his journey of discovering who he is.
It’s that last bit that makes Unknown White Male interesting. Doug will never be the same person as he was – that’s all gone now, but he gets a chance to become someone new. Lucky for Doug, he had been a successful stockbroker and wasn’t short of a bit of money.
It raises the question of what makes us who we are. If we’re born a certain way, and can’t change who we are no matter what we do, then Doug, even with his total amnesia, would still be Doug. However, if Doug, through not knowing anything about his upbringing, or even his life as a successful stockbroker, can turn into a totally different person, that would suggest that we are a product of our environment, and through our choices (and those of our parents!) can become someone better (or worse).
Food for thought:
If you could start you life all over again, would you change anything?
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1 comments to "DVD | Unknown White Male"
2:31 PM
Hmmm...that sounds like a true story.
I wouldn't change anything for fear of losing the stuff in my future that I like. But if I could change stuff without the risk of that happening, I'd like to think I'd have been more of a rebel in my teens.
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