Brothers

 

I was so blown away by this movie.

Brothers is about this two extremely different brothers (duh!) and how their lives and relationship are affected after Sam (the 'good' brother) goes to Afghanistan and Tommy (the 'bad' brother) is left with his family.

There's so much I really liked about this movie. First, the relationship between Sam and Tommy, I love how united they are despite of being so different and of how the family feels about Tommy. Second, I love how intense it is. There is a lot of tension and all the acting is so incredible that, even from outside the screen, we can, not only feel the tension, but almost touch it.

It's not a movie about war, but it's kind of hard to watch it and not wonder how much war really affects the people who lived through it.

I need to mention the acting again, because it's just so good! Jake, Natalie, the kids (the kids are amazing. Specially on the tension scenes), everyone is so incredible (must mention the guy who goes to war with Sam). But Tobey, oh my! Tobey just takes the movie to a whole new level. I've never seen him like this. I didn't even know he could be this dark and intense. It's just sad that he didn't get the appreciation he deserved, he deserved at least more award nominations.

Now that I come to think about it, not just Tobey was underappreciated, but the movie in a whole. It makes me so sad that good movies are left  to the dust, while crappy ones become huge.

It's a great movie. Definitely worthy of your time. And if I had to describe it in only one word, INTENSE would be it.