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Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

wallawallabangbang I enjoyed watching the first two-thirds of this movie, but my interest waned when when a key figure left the scene, denying an obligatory conflict, discussion, or resolution. Also, as the movie progressed, one of the leading men spent too much time smiling while the other wore a blank expression. The movie is about incest, but it ultimately didn't have much to say about the topic. It is dreamy, but not convincing.

Andrea Berroterán As the protagonists are brothers, there was so much material to be developed during the movie that they was'n represented: the period of rejection from their parents (which must have been one) and finally acceptation and reconciliation. Beyond their sexual orientation, that's incest! there had to be at least a scene where they talked about it and there wasn't. Infinite problems could have appeared in their lives but the only one that was shown was a long-distance relationship which could have appeared in any film with a normal couple. They could have shown how they managed to be accepted, nevertheless, everything goes happily without anyone judging them; it's simply not realistic. There was a lot of material to be exploded that was completely ignored. The story itself is really good and should have been represented that way

Paul Horne Probably the most romantic (and clearly romanticized) love story I've seen between two men. The brothers thing made it interesting and edgy, but the love between them is so much bigger than their blood relation. This is not an after school special about being gay - the word gay is never mentioned, and the relationship is never really challenged, even by outsiders in the town. Which in itself is an interesting statement.You have to see it as a piece of ART -- an exploration or a "what if?" scenario, and not a typical Hollywood hero's journey.Neither struggle with being gay or being attracted to each other -- they are just surfing the experience of profound romantic love. I think what makes it different from other approaches to the subject, is that it asks the question "What if you fell in love with your brother and that was not a problem?" What I found interesting is MY OWN expectations about how people in the film should react to the relationship. I was actually confronted that they didn't feel ashamed or conflicted about their own relationship.Obviously, there would be more of a panic if the story were between a brother and sister, but if you take out the possibility of sexual conception you can focus on the idea that traditional sibling boundaries simply never existed between these brothers. It also helps that the actors are gorgeous. It's not exactly Philadelphia or Schindler's List, but I found the film sweet, fascinating, romantic -- a pleasant surprise.

showtrmp I'm not sure what to make of this film. It is undoubtedly the most romantic portrait of homosexual male incest ever put on the screen. The two (half) brothers in question stare tenderly at each other almost every second, say things like, "To understand our love, they'd have to turn the world upside down", and even exchange wedding rings (!!!). The film approves so much of this relationship that the only drama it can find is one brother's opportunity to study in Russia for the Olympics, which will separate him from his paramour for three years. There's some mild suspense as to whether this hiatus will push one or both brothers into a more socially acceptable (homo or hetero) sex life, then a rather abrupt ending. While it is refreshing that the movie avoids the usual Lifetime TV melodramatic approach ("We just...couldn't...STOP!!!"), it's rather bizarre that the brothers' relatives and friends never protest or even ask uncomfortable questions; everyone else in the movie just wants to avoid the subject. And the structure compounds the problem; the movie lingers on "poetic", eventually redundant scenes of the boys' childhood (long after we get the idea) then suddenly leaps forward several years (killing off two principal characters) to the start of their sexual relationship--we never really see the decision made, and the moment of no return seems to happen between scenes. The subject is raised, then glossed over with golden cinematography and a near-constant underscoring of "tasteful" neo-classical mood music (i.e., much piano noodling cushioned by aching strings) which stops at crucial moments. Is it seemly for an incest movie to be so inoffensive?