This could have been a great movie!
Thomas and Francisco are half brothers and since their childhood are extremely close and over protective with each other, but still in a different way. Their parents realize how peculiar their sons relationship are and then they are just fine with it. For a moment you think there will be a struggle, at least a internal one; just for a brief moment their mother shows some concern but she seems to eventually just let it go. This becomes the movie biggest mistake: the lack of conflict.
The story jumps from where the boys are around 10 years old to where they are already grown men. That's when the movie loses itself. It just jumps the most critical and interesting part of what could have been: their teenage years. The discovery of sexuality, the actual realization of the boys feelings. How does it feel to realize at age 15 that you're not attracted to girls but you are deeply in love with your brother? What if he feels the same, how you both would deal with it? With your parents, with your friends, with the world? But mostly how each one of them would deal with themselves, the inner crisis that I imagine someone in this situation would experience.
It just lacks conflict at any kind. Their parents, their friends and everyone around them seem to be just OK with the fact that two brothers are in a relationship, like it's a daily situation we're all used to. It's like they live at their own magic world.
But the movie has its pros. The story is told in a beautiful, almost poetic way. The scenarios are beautiful and so are the main actors that have, by the way, great chemistry. The music is also beautiful.
I liked the ending, although incest is still a taboo, I do believe, as cheesy as it sounds, true love conquers all and I would love to see the boys ending up together, but first I would like to see some real conflict, as it would certainly happen in a situation like this in real life.
Thomas and Francisco are half brothers and since their childhood are extremely close and over protective with each other, but still in a different way. Their parents realize how peculiar their sons relationship are and then they are just fine with it. For a moment you think there will be a struggle, at least a internal one; just for a brief moment their mother shows some concern but she seems to eventually just let it go. This becomes the movie biggest mistake: the lack of conflict.
The story jumps from where the boys are around 10 years old to where they are already grown men. That's when the movie loses itself. It just jumps the most critical and interesting part of what could have been: their teenage years. The discovery of sexuality, the actual realization of the boys feelings. How does it feel to realize at age 15 that you're not attracted to girls but you are deeply in love with your brother? What if he feels the same, how you both would deal with it? With your parents, with your friends, with the world? But mostly how each one of them would deal with themselves, the inner crisis that I imagine someone in this situation would experience.
It just lacks conflict at any kind. Their parents, their friends and everyone around them seem to be just OK with the fact that two brothers are in a relationship, like it's a daily situation we're all used to. It's like they live at their own magic world.
But the movie has its pros. The story is told in a beautiful, almost poetic way. The scenarios are beautiful and so are the main actors that have, by the way, great chemistry. The music is also beautiful.
I liked the ending, although incest is still a taboo, I do believe, as cheesy as it sounds, true love conquers all and I would love to see the boys ending up together, but first I would like to see some real conflict, as it would certainly happen in a situation like this in real life.