Don't judge Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons by its overly
dramatic opening moments, which awkwardly depict a tragedy on a lake that leaves a young boy motherless and imbued with a healthy fear of water.
Even though the script might let her down, Schumer does still manage to sell a smattering of the comic
moments (the
opening scene has a promising knockabout tone), but when she reaches the more
dramatic elements, she struggles to convince.
«As in a movie poster, using quick, hectic brushstrokes, Jacqueline de Jong sought to create a
dramatic sketch of a situation, to capture the literally sensational of the criminal
moment, with image and typography in shreds, concentrated into the classic mythical constellation of man and woman or trench coat and hat, coloured with the signs of fear — wide
open eyes, the hand clutching the forbidden, blood on the knife blade, flame spewing from the barrel of the revolver, a last kiss between monster and victim.»