Movie Mondays!

Sobering. This American adaptation of the foreign Brodre is a strong film that touches on issues like estrangement, alienation and trust. Could well be on a double feature with The Hurt Locker, this film deals with the fallout of a soldier thought killed on tour of duty. It has a solid cast with Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Sam Shepard and Mare Winningham who are all on their game. The film actually raises larger issues in the sense we are at a point of dealing with a generation of service personnel who have served in combat and will be returning home, this film and Hurt Locker may be the beginning of a wave of American films focusing on the issues surrounding those returning veterans just as American cinema has done with each conflict the US has been involved with since WWII. Brothers is a stellar entry in the genre.

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