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Features Actors:Doug Bruce, Rupert Murray Running Time:88 Min. Rating:PG-13 Based on a true story. Unknown White Male is a curious, (allegedly) factual documentary of one Douglas Bruce, a 35-year-old retired New York stockbroker who woke up one morning on the B train headed to Coney Island. He couldn't remember how he got there; he couldn't remember who he was; he couldn't remember anything. After a brief stay in a mental hospital, a call to a random number on a scrap of paper in his backpack led to an acquaintance picking him up and taking him to his spacious Manhattan loft apartment. Bruce suffers from an extraordinarily rare form of total retrograde amnesia. He remembers virtually nothing of his previous 35 years of existence. This means he cannot recognize friends and family members, doesn't remember birthday parties and vacations and cannot even recall tastes, sights or smells. In one of the film's more irreverent moments, a friend of Bruce's recounts him raving about a new band he had just heard. She asked him who they were and he exclaims, "The Rolling Stones!" Unknown White Male chronicles the first two years of Bruce's life, post memory loss. Fortuitously for the film's director, Rupert Murray, Bruce, who had ambitions to be a professional photographer, recorded much of his actions immediately following the loss. This includes the return to his apartment and, most poignantly, his reconciliation with his family. In the film's most absurd moment (and there are several), Doug films his sister and father's reactions at the airport when they are, in a sense, introduced for the first time. Unknown White Male is pretty much an amalgamation of moments like these. Bruce tastes chocolate mousse for the first time; he is overjoyed by his first snowfall; he flies to England to reunite with the friends he grew up with. But Unknown White Male does not merely chronicle Bruce's journey of self-discovery. With great assistance from the ponderous Bruce, this movie challenges the viewer to not only consider who he is, but who they are.Hope this helps you decide.!Thanks for reading! :)Read full review
I thought this was a movie, but it was all talk about how the guy lost his memory. So I didn’t get into it at all
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