This is not a movie about fighting - it's about love and forgiving

Rating: 10/10 (6 April 2019)

I just watched this movie for the fifth time in 8 years. What is clear to me is, that this is not about fighting or winning. This is a movie about love. Love between brothers and forgiveness to their alcoholic father who failed them over and over again. What is so impressive to me is that none of the three guys in the movie (Hardy, Edgerton, Nolte) seems to know a way to show their deep love to any of the others. They are wearing this "fighter person suit" (Hardy especially. brilliant) but are also able to show us the vulnerable child that was left behind. I thought it is only me but when I showed this gem of a film to my niece, who is a big movie fan and was only 18 years old at the time (I should mention she has also two brothers), I could observe my own first reaction to it multiplied by ten: she was crying so hard in the end (and also in between) that we needed to comfort her. After calming down she told us that this was one of the most beautiful movies she has ever seen (and who am I to contradict her).