First off, beware the preview. The movie portrayed in it seems to be a comedy/dramedy of 2 half-brothers (Ethan Hawke & Ewan McGregor) dealing with the death of their world's worst dysfunction junction childhood father. But it's not light-hearted fun in the least...Which is not a problem if the story makes sense, it rings true in it's universe and you can somehow understand & believe the characters actions. But this story certainly does not.
Is it a surrealist absurd take on bad fatherhood? Is it a rumination on the possibility of a bad human changing & evolving as he advances in life? There are so many strange, incongruent characters & things happening in this movie that it's hard to know exactly what it's trying to achieve. And no offense to the actors, i think they do their best with a questionable story. My question is when they read the script, how were they not scratching their heads at the premise? Seems like they should've been.
Just a few examples, this father of theirs who seems to be a terrible person somehow has fathered multiple children who keep popping up in the movie and the latest is about 10 years old that he fathered with the spunky half his age Latina women in the movie that Ewan McGregor winds up fooling around with at the end of the movie (Lol, payback/karma?). Somehow in the town of the father's funeral, he's viewed as extremely charismatic, charming etc by mulitple characters. This is the same man our 2 main characters hate & still have scars as grown men from? Oh yeah and 1 more thing, this father slept w/ his son's wife (Ewan McGregor's character) and impregnated her, so that Ewan's character has a son that's not really his, it's his father's; so who he thought was his son is actually another half-brother?!? Lol...Uhhh, yeah that's in this story.
So maybe to whoever's reading this, maybe you should see this movie for yourself and experience the confusion of these characters' actions yourself & make your own decision? Or maybe don't waste 2 hrs of your life and watch a more entertaining movie that makes sense and gives you something to legitimately think about. This ain't that movie in my humble opinion...Sorry Ethan & Ewan, nice jobs w/ the material you had but next time delve a little deeper into that screenplay...
Is it a surrealist absurd take on bad fatherhood? Is it a rumination on the possibility of a bad human changing & evolving as he advances in life? There are so many strange, incongruent characters & things happening in this movie that it's hard to know exactly what it's trying to achieve. And no offense to the actors, i think they do their best with a questionable story. My question is when they read the script, how were they not scratching their heads at the premise? Seems like they should've been.
Just a few examples, this father of theirs who seems to be a terrible person somehow has fathered multiple children who keep popping up in the movie and the latest is about 10 years old that he fathered with the spunky half his age Latina women in the movie that Ewan McGregor winds up fooling around with at the end of the movie (Lol, payback/karma?). Somehow in the town of the father's funeral, he's viewed as extremely charismatic, charming etc by mulitple characters. This is the same man our 2 main characters hate & still have scars as grown men from? Oh yeah and 1 more thing, this father slept w/ his son's wife (Ewan McGregor's character) and impregnated her, so that Ewan's character has a son that's not really his, it's his father's; so who he thought was his son is actually another half-brother?!? Lol...Uhhh, yeah that's in this story.
So maybe to whoever's reading this, maybe you should see this movie for yourself and experience the confusion of these characters' actions yourself & make your own decision? Or maybe don't waste 2 hrs of your life and watch a more entertaining movie that makes sense and gives you something to legitimately think about. This ain't that movie in my humble opinion...Sorry Ethan & Ewan, nice jobs w/ the material you had but next time delve a little deeper into that screenplay...