An Understanding

Rating: 9/10 (19 November 2019)

This movie will open your eyes, no matter how shut you had them. The horrors and atrocities this movie will portrays will resonate with a person no matter what his views are. A huge emphasis in the movie is given to the influence an older brother has on his younger kin, Tony Kaye shows how even the seemingly most horrid acts such as murder can be seen in a good light by a person who looks up to the person committing them. Overall the movie is relatively disturbing in the beginning, but by the end of the first hour and then towards the end the movie starts to resemble a coming of age movie. The main character represents maturity and conscience when he leaves prison and that contrasts well with his younger brother who if not stopped, is heading down the same path his brother was.