Kirpianuscus at first sigh, a strange , unrealistic story. at the second, a good job. in fact, only a hypothesis about a men click and the clash between feelings and ideology. not new idea but used in wise manner. cold, cruel, with subtle references to Greek mythology, Brotherhood has a lot of virtues. the acting, the script, the set, the atmosphere, the not comfortable situations, the culture of hate against an exotic form of heresy. a film who propose a bitter subject who could not be represented only by gay relation but the manner to define the pillars of national identity, the courage and the national virtues. a film about a group and its broken rules. and a brilliant art of exploration of details.

sergepesic Ah, the magic and confusing explosive mixture of machismo and sexuality!!! There is no other institution with such discomfort at the mention of homosexuality, than the military. It certainly makes a lot of sense. If your purpose is spilling of the blood, what do you do with arousal and men loving ? Well, the skinheads are based on the same false patriotic and quasi-military principals. Shaved heads, extremely tight pants, loud music, cheap beer, and almost exclusively male company.No surprise than, that Lars and Jimmy hit it off so well nor that it ended so badly. Nothing filthier than moronic notions of purity, racial or sexual. The nature of humankind is exactly the lack of purity and aching imperfection of us all. Whenever you try to take that away, you destroy the essence of our existence.where do you go after that?

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU This is a love affair between two men that met accidentally but the object of the film is gay-bashing in Denmark in general, and in extreme right Nazi movements in particular. The anti-gay position of Denmark (and its armed forces) is not explained just as if it were "natural", "organic" and "bio-degradable". But the film shows how absurd the anti-gay position of the Nazi movement is.It is for these swastika men a fundamental position because you cannot be a man and be gay at the same time. Gay men don't exist. They are not natural. They have to be naturalized back to nature with a good beating, if not simply reduced to natural vegetative non-life, generally known as death. But they don't kill. They inflict some fatal wounds so that the person will surely die in a lot of suffering and over a long period of time.That's purely barbaric and the film shows it so well that it becomes insolent, as if we were too dumb to know it.At the same time the brother of the older member, Jimmy, of the group who falls in love with the newcomer Lars is shown as disturbed: drugs, suicide, all the symptoms of a young man who was violated, brutalized and probably sexually assaulted by a member of his family, probably his elder brother, Jimmy himself, is not clearly diagnosed as being such a victim which would explain why he got his vengeance against his brother by telling the chief of the group like a fink he is about the love affair that Jimmy is having with Lars.The logic of this character is obvious but it is in no way clearly said, and this younger brother sitting next to the hospital bed of his elder brother who is in a coma and will probably never come back, and all that because he, the younger brother, spread the good news of his liaison with Lars, is pitiful and pathetic and his walking out when Lars arrives with some glances exchanged as if there were some communication meaning something we cannot know but imagine like "See what you did. Am I ever going to forgive you?" etc. And Lars as well as the fink of a younger brother could say that equally.But once again all that is not explicitly said or expressed and that is frustrating. The wider meaning that could concern human nature itself and human society as a whole is made ghostlike and the only clear message is the anti-Nazi manifesto the film is. But to say that "Pakis cost us billions of kronen whereas a bullet only cost a few cents" is rather superficial to build a plot and a psychologically sound character.But the shallowest part of the film is the love between Lars and Jimmy because it is shown as practically instantaneous, with no tenderness, no spiritual dimension, purely physical, one kiss and off we are, and emotional, contact in forced solitude, to the verge of brutality. That type of love exists for sure but it is not very eloquent to our minds in the context it is situated in, a neo-Nazi party in Denmark. In fact the Muslim Pakistanis they hate so much are not one iota different on that point. They should join forces to liberate the world of "faggots" but it works in the worst possible way since it is Jimmy who provokes the Pakistanis and Lars who saves him when he is on the point of being severely mashed down by pure numerical superiority. And during that time the local boss of the Nazi group is preventing the other members from rescuing Jimmy.That is so bleak that it leaves me dubious as for any real meaning in that film that becomes a string of grotesque vignettes and burlesque cameos on a tragic subject that is hardly seriously touched.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

lasttimeisaw A gay romance happening inside a Danish Neo-Nazi clique, what a crack idea! The film intriguingly narrates a compassionate experience of a former Danish serviceman Lars (Thure Lindhardt, the winsome blond from ANGELS & DEMONS 2009), whose passionate courtship with Jimmy (superbly played by David Dencik from A SOAP 2006, another 8/10 film from Denmark, a frenzy macho role sheerly contrasts with his transsexual image in the latter film), who is the fervent skinhead among a gay-bashing Neo-Nazi group. (Speaking of Nazism, my downright ignorance thwart me from the knowledge of how exact the film tackles with the thorny issue, judging by the film, it is basically understated I suppose). There are abundant cinematic conflicts in the plot, although predictable, but applied deftly (by a poignant performance from the two leads and a fine-tuned hand-held camera movement, it never cease trembling). An exemplary northern Europe topography and scenario imbues an obscure hue of cruelty and restlessness.The performances are solid (Morten Holst, who plays Jimmy's younger brother, might be a tad histrionic), both the chemistry between two lead actors and the impending tragedy are brewed perfectly on time and the sex scenes are aesthetically beguiling. More encouraging, the film doesn't take either stand to beautify or disparage the Neo-Nazi image, while love happens everywhere, so does gay love. An ambiguous deus ex machina aptly averts any cliché in the over-exploited gay-theme melodrama sub-genre although melodramatic might not be a meritorious adjective for a film under the background of a sternly violent context, but also demystifies the remotely tangible target to a humane understanding and transmits a positive message to the preconception-ridden society.