BROTHERS | Black Box Filmmuseum Düsseldorf - Neuerwerbungen aus dem Filmarchiv: Staatliche Gewalt in den USA

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BROTHERS

USA 2009 - 104 min - OmU - 35mm - FSK 12 - D: Jim Sheridan - B: David Benioff - C: Frederick Elmes - D: Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire, Clifton Collins jr., Bailee Madison et al.

At the heart of the film is the destabilization of a family order through war experience and psychological trauma. BROTHERS tells the story of two brothers whose relationship is fundamentally changed by their deployment in Afghanistan and its consequences. While one is taken prisoner as a soldier and presumed dead, the other increasingly takes over his role within the family - not as a conscious usurpation, but as a gradual process of emotional and social reorganization.

After the return of the supposedly fallen man, the repressed conflicts come to light. The film analyzes post-traumatic stress disorder not as an individual deficit, but as a structural consequence of military violence that deforms intimate relationships and destroys the ability to communicate. Masculinity appears here as a fragile construct that oscillates between an ethos of duty, guilt and loss of control. BROTHERS is a remake of the Danish film BRØDRE (2004) by Susanne Bier, but deliberately avoids melodramatic escalation. The staging remains sober, the conflicts are precisely outlined and the characters are psychologically complex. The result is not a sentimental family drama, but an ana-lytic study of the long-term social consequences of modern warfare and the fragility of family ties.

Price information:

Admission 7 Euro - reduced 5 Euro - with Black Box Pass 4 Euro - ticket reservation Tel 0211 - 8992232