Before the dawn of medical ethics Just saw this remarkable, important documentary, which, as a film, was superbly and sensitively directed and edited. As always for me, after I've seen a film this moving and provocative, I emerged from the theater unable to return to "normal" life for hours, instead being absorbed in thought and a review of my own life... that's how powerful this film is. I am struck by how the incredibly unethical "research" behind this story echoes such other research and medical practices that have preceded our present day, e.g., the Tuskegee syphilis study, the widespread use of HeLa cells and other tissue biopsy samples taken from unwitting patients and their families, the CIA's study of LSD for mind control purposes. I am taking a wild guess that the Dr. Neuberger who conducted the research study of the twins---right here in the U.S., not Nazi Germany--was inspired (perhaps unconsciously) by the "medical" experiments conducted on twins by the Nazi doctor, Josef Mengele. Dr. Neuberger, himself a Jew who escaped the fate of so many other Jews in the Nazi era, perhaps suffered from some form of Stockholm Syndrome, that is, he actually seemed to have been enthralled with the implications of research using identical twins the same way Mengele was, even if his motives seemed more benign and well meaning. The questions behind Neuberger's motives--and how a powerful Jewish institution supposedly devoted to children and families could abet him in his bizarre experiment--boggles the mind. I can not help but see a long-term infection from the collective trauma of the Holocaust as some explanation for why a respected and revered psychologist would, in turn, inflict his own antiseptic brand of horror on innocent children and their families in the footsteps of one of the most insane and sadistic Nazis in history.