Film · Lionsgate · 2009
Brothers
54Watch it awake.
The man who came back and the man who stayed. Adults. The house is the battlefield that remains.
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The review
Sam Cahill is the good son, a Marine captain. Tommy is the one who has been in jail. When Sam is declared dead, Tommy becomes useful to the wife and the girls, and usefulness is a new experience for him. Sam is not dead. He comes home having done a thing in captivity that he cannot say, and he looks at his brother the way a man looks at a thief.
Adults only. The film is a remake of a Danish story and it keeps the domestic dread better than it keeps the war. I would not use the last movement as a lesson. I would use the middle: a household that had to keep eating, and a man who mistakes the evidence of that for betrayal. If you watch it, ask what a wife is allowed to need from the weeks she was told she was a widow.
Journal
Keep Brothers in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 54. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety and Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Megan Leavey
66 instead of 54
Megan Leavey is still a war film, and it scores 66 instead of 54. What you gain is industry: Handling a dog that can get a patrol killed is a job, and she learns it.
The eight
- 5Industry
One brother was the reliable one. The war takes the reliability and does not give it back on schedule.
- 8Household
A wife, two daughters, a father. The film is the house trying to reseat itself twice.
- 3Piety
Guilt does the work a prayer might have done. The film is not interested in grace.
- 6Courage
What he survived was courage. What he brings home is a suspicion that looks like courage and is not.
- 4Republic
The war is offstage. The country that sent him is mostly a kitchen.
- 4Temperance
The last act reaches for a thriller. The wound was enough.
- 7Truth
A marriage under that kind of return is not tidy, and the film does not tidy it early.
- 6Stewardship
What it leaves is a warning: absence rearranges a house, and return does not undo the rearrangement.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Brothers · 54IMDb tt0765010
