It's well acted, even if it feel short is a fine length for the story, is better than just padding up the run time with things that don't matter.
The relationship between the brothers is awful, I dread to think on who it may be based on, but it comes to show what growing up in a dysfunctional family can do to people.
As for spoilers: I would have rated higher if they'd had the guts to kill Joey at the end. Matt and Joey are obviously disturbed by what they witnessed growing up, and it would have been a more wrenching ending if that environment would have ended with Matt killing Joey.
I know is brutal, but the movie is quite bleak, so why not go all the way?
I have to say that I couldn't believe some of the decisions Joey takes, his inability to stand up to his brother at first shows how submissive he can be to brute force, still can kind of torture an "innocent man" for his pleasure. Then the decisions seemed psychotic, like he got a new pet/dad he could somehow control. Was he becoming a serial killer? Is that what we witnessed?
Anyway, good effort.
The relationship between the brothers is awful, I dread to think on who it may be based on, but it comes to show what growing up in a dysfunctional family can do to people.
As for spoilers: I would have rated higher if they'd had the guts to kill Joey at the end. Matt and Joey are obviously disturbed by what they witnessed growing up, and it would have been a more wrenching ending if that environment would have ended with Matt killing Joey.
I know is brutal, but the movie is quite bleak, so why not go all the way?
I have to say that I couldn't believe some of the decisions Joey takes, his inability to stand up to his brother at first shows how submissive he can be to brute force, still can kind of torture an "innocent man" for his pleasure. Then the decisions seemed psychotic, like he got a new pet/dad he could somehow control. Was he becoming a serial killer? Is that what we witnessed?
Anyway, good effort.