Rachael MurphyBrothers
January 26th 2010 16:13
I am not a very emotional person. I am a girl but I don't want people thinking that it will influence how I feel about this movie. Granted I went all weak at the knee when the second installment in the Twlight saga came out but that is it I am usually imune to gilish burst of tears.
When I went to see 'Brothers' I didn't cry but I almost did and for that it is big thing. I have never seen a movie that tears at your heart strings more and it does it so well. 'Brothers' as the title suggests is about two brother played by Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal, one has just got out of prison after doing time for, as far as I can tell, robbing a bank. The other brother is about to go away to do anthor tour of duty in Afganistan. It is not difficult to figure which brother we are supposed to feel for but as the movie runs its simple couse the lines become very blurred.
It is very often I have described a movie as simple and boasted of that as its charm but if that continue to be my argument this movie has no charm. It is the most complicated movie I have ever seen and that has nothing to do with plot difficulty or our ability to know what is going on, it is to do with our ability to know what people are feeling. 'Brothers' is about the trip our emotions take us on. How we deal with the hardest things that life can throw at us and how we don't deal with them.
You might now be thinking that, that would make it a very hard movie to watch and you would be right it does. There is almost a physical pain to it because the movie gives you no comfort, there is no big relief, no moment where you suddenly think that everything is going to be ok. That is right though because doing it any other way would be incredible unfair to the subject matter.
Even the character surprise us a every turn. I don't think it is too presumtious to say that when we walk out of a movie you could write a list of who the good guys are and who were the bad ones but 'Brothers' betrays that convention. Not one person in this movie is good and not one of them is bad, they are who they are and you accpet that, you don't hate them and you don't love them, they are just who they are.
I have to put in a mention here of the two little girls in the movie Bailee Madison and Taylor Geare they just stole the show and left in the dust the steller proformances by the adult cast. Much respect.
It is actually quite hard for me to just tell people to go and see this movie. It is without doubt worth the ticket price but it also extreemly hard to watch. If you are already an emotional person I would actaully say don't go and see it because it will haunt you for a long time. But as I said before if you think you can take it, it is worth the ticket price.
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