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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

A different way of telling a story

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This is a love affair between two men that met accidentally but the object of the film is gay-bashing in Denmark in general, and in extreme right Nazi movements in particular. The anti-gay position of Denmark (and its armed forces) is not explained just as if it were "natural", "organic" and "bio-degradable". But the film shows how absurd the anti-gay position of the Nazi movement is.It is for these swastika men a fundamental position because you cannot be a man and be gay at the same time. Gay men don't exist. They are not natural. They have to be naturalized back to nature with a good beating, if not simply reduced to natural vegetative non-life, generally known as death. But they don't kill. They inflict some fatal wounds so that the person will surely die in a lot of suffering and over a long period of time.That's purely barbaric and the film shows it so well that it becomes insolent, as if we were too dumb to know it.At the same time the brother of the older member, Jimmy, of the group who falls in love with the newcomer Lars is shown as disturbed: drugs, suicide, all the symptoms of a young man who was violated, brutalized and probably sexually assaulted by a member of his family, probably his elder brother, Jimmy himself, is not clearly diagnosed as being such a victim which would explain why he got his vengeance against his brother by telling the chief of the group like a fink he is about the love affair that Jimmy is having with Lars.The logic of this character is obvious but it is in no way clearly said, and this younger brother sitting next to the hospital bed of his elder brother who is in a coma and will probably never come back, and all that because he, the younger brother, spread the good news of his liaison with Lars, is pitiful and pathetic and his walking out when Lars arrives with some glances exchanged as if there were some communication meaning something we cannot know but imagine like "See what you did. Am I ever going to forgive you?" etc. And Lars as well as the fink of a younger brother could say that equally.But once again all that is not explicitly said or expressed and that is frustrating. The wider meaning that could concern human nature itself and human society as a whole is made ghostlike and the only clear message is the anti-Nazi manifesto the film is. But to say that "Pakis cost us billions of kronen whereas a bullet only cost a few cents" is rather superficial to build a plot and a psychologically sound character.But the shallowest part of the film is the love between Lars and Jimmy because it is shown as practically instantaneous, with no tenderness, no spiritual dimension, purely physical, one kiss and off we are, and emotional, contact in forced solitude, to the verge of brutality. That type of love exists for sure but it is not very eloquent to our minds in the context it is situated in, a neo-Nazi party in Denmark. In fact the Muslim Pakistanis they hate so much are not one iota different on that point. They should join forces to liberate the world of "faggots" but it works in the worst possible way since it is Jimmy who provokes the Pakistanis and Lars who saves him when he is on the point of being severely mashed down by pure numerical superiority. And during that time the local boss of the Nazi group is preventing the other members from rescuing Jimmy.That is so bleak that it leaves me dubious as for any real meaning in that film that becomes a string of grotesque vignettes and burlesque cameos on a tragic subject that is hardly seriously touched.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Sense of love, hate or life. Sense of gestures and words. Sense of meetings and guilty, justice and feelings. Sense of punishment. A movie about neo-Nazi group and a young man in search of his place. A gray world. And answer to solitude. Images of intolerance, hypocrisy and self escape. A gay movie. At first sight. In fact, picture of crisis. Crumb from a real/imaginary Danish life style. A love accident as answer to deep problems. Like essence of two existences. The story is interesting, the acting is good, the script is balancing exercise but important is only the last images. A hospital. Two men. And the hidden words. The look of innocent traitor. And the game of facts as trace of snail. Source of questions, this film must see. Not exactly for tale. Maybe , as antidote against intolerance and prejudices. But the real motif is just the temptation to discover world beyond its skin. That is all !

This Danish film is one of my two current favorites of gay cinema (the other is the Argentine film PLAN B, which I will review asap). BROTHERHOOD is the most beautiful, passionate, erotic film I have ever seen. I recommend it with all the force I can! For a large portion of the film, the 2 main characters do not live lives that I can call admirable. Lars, a tow-headed guy who has recently served in the military, is joining a Neo-Nazi group, obviously drawn to those who think and act like Hitler did. They attack and bash routinely Pakistani citizens and homosexuals.Lars meets Jimmy, a full-on skinhead. At first Lars and Jimmy dislike each other, but when they begin to collaborate on improving a house for the movement, they find themselves (gasp!) attracted to each other. The love scenes are amazing because of the acting, the chemistry and the yearning musical score.When the lovers realize that they are living and loving every way their hate group believes is wrong and "unnatural," they are forced to make fateful decisions that may cost them their lives.It left me speechless and heartbroken, but the tagline is true: Love conquers all.

I found this movie to be absolutely stunning in terms of direction and acting. The two lead actors were absolutely great and believable in their performances. The director was great at capturing moments of erotic tension and tenderness between the two leads. In terms of plot and story-writing there are certainly some flaws that could have been better worked out, but I really appreciated the way the theme was approached and developed. The neo nazi ideology was certainly one of the main themes but the director and the writers weren't too judgmental and they let the characters shine regardless of the reasons that brought them to be a part of such a violent and racist community. I certainly advice to watch it, cause it gives a good depiction of a "different" homosexual relationship not framable in the usual stereotypes of gay love. Good job!