The University, due to a narrow interpretation of the Data Protections Act, refuses to 'confirm or deny' that he attended. It seems fair to say that the majority of Douglas Bruce's academic qualifications ended at the gates of St Edmunds where his father had also attended from Douglas attended the school from , however, the school heard nothing more from him after he left.
It still retains an address in Marbella for his father. Apparently he later applied to Universities in Edinburgh and at Asten Birmingham though it is questionable if he would have been accepted at either due to his grades. He had hoped to do business studies with French. However, apparently whilst he received an A for his oral French, his written French brought him only a C. He attended the school for 9 years, four of them spent in the juniors and the rest in seniors.
By the age of 17, in his final year, he was secretary of the Forum debating Society. He played a shepherd in one production but 'did not stretch much further'. It was following the short stint at London University that Douglas, possibly in his late teens, headed across the Channel. It was in Paris that he claimed he worked as stockbroker. It is difficult understand how he did so without the requisite qualifications.
He refuses to say where he worked. The Du Bouzet name may have opened doors left shut to many Are these 'connections'?
The address on his birth certificate matches the home of the Comte du Bouzet, which suggests the Unknown White Male is a known aristocrat. At the time his sisters did not remember seeing him cry or hearing him discuss his feelings and this was felt to be a possible motivating factor to his later retrograde amnesia, though doctors do not concur. The play Fuddy Meers performed nearby ten months earlier in October Despite the memory loss, he obtained a BFA in on graduation.
Douglas Bruce is now a commercial photographer working in NY. Labels: Unknown White Male - the forgotten journey. No comments:. Newer Post Older Post Home. The film has played for test audiences and at festivals such as Sundance and the Los Angeles Film Festival, and there's usually someone in the audience who doesn't believe the story.
People have commented that something doesn't ring true--either that everybody in the film is too good looking, or that the story is just too far-fetched: a year-old, independently wealthy stockbroker gets amnesia, has no record of his past and is completely free to make up a new life.
When test audiences in England first suggested it was a hoax, Murray had not anticipated this reaction. Daniel Schacter, chair of the psychiatry department at Harvard University , describes the different forms of amnesia, adding another dimension to the film.
The British philosopher Mary Warnock discusses the philosophy of identity: "Dislocated from his past, Doug may be the same man but he is not the same person," she says in the film. After exhaustive medical and neurological testing, the cause of Bruce's amnesia was never determined. Many factors could have contributed to it, but the film provides no concrete answer. Based on case histories about amnesia, doctors say that there is a 95 percent chance that Bruce will regain his memory.
In the three years since Bruce suffered amnesia he has changed. Murray has watched him change from an outgoing man to a more thoughtful and reflective individual.
Not only has Murray been witness to his friend's redevelopment but he has traveled an incredible journey as a filmmaker, one that has taught him the power of a good story. Laura Almo is a contributing editor with Documentary.
She can be reached at lauraalmo mac. Little else was found on him other than some dog medicine; he had no wallet, bank cards, or other identifying documents. The phone number was that of the mother of a girl, Nadine Abramson, whom he had tried to court. Abramson went to the hospital and identified him as 'Doug Bruce', a prosperous Englishman who had formerly been a successful banker in Paris , and who was studying for a degree in photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Due to the extreme rarity of Bruce's form of amnesia, the length of it Bruce has not regained his memory and therefore is a medical anomaly , as well as myriad inconsistencies in his story, there have been claims that the film is a hoax. The filmmakers and subject deny this. Various publications discussed the improbability of Bruce's story, which centers around being the only documented example of extended, full-blown amnesia in the world to date aside from Benjamin Kyle. Others concentrate on dissecting the various incongruent statements Bruce has made regarding his alleged trauma.
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