Ugh (Spoiler)

Rating: 3/10 (16 February 2013)

Like 'Blue Valentine', the virtues of this movie, its craftsmanship in terms of photography, performance, exposition, and so on, ultimately lead to its undoing. Its absolutely repulsive denouement simply destroys any viewer satisfaction in the whole. This is indeed the spoiler - the brother for whom the twins are searching, and the father, turn out to be the same person - with the added flourish that their conception occurred as the result of torture/rape.
What exactly was the point here? Was there one? In 'Chinatown', which has a similar twist, the revelation is treated with horror and disgust (plus it explains eccentricities in the Faye Dunaway character). Here it says absolutely nothing about anything - in fact, the revelation is accompanied by the ludicrous hope of the dead mother that it 'will end the cycle of anger'.
Are you kidding? What it's going to do is lead to permanent estrangement and alienation of all three, plus do permanent damage to the twins' self-perception.
And what does any of this say about the Middle East? Or any larger human issue? Next to nothing.
Disaster. Ugh.