My First Review: The Brothers Bloom

“I want an unwritten life” -Bloom

A story of two brothers turn con men who try to pull off the greatest con in the world, where everyone gets what they want. But as love intervenes and the curiosity of an epileptic photographer ruins the con, Bloom, played by Adrien Brody can’t tell the difference between what’s real and what his brother has written.

Ever since both Bloom and Stephen were young, they had a plan for everything; the older Stephen would create the perfect con the two would jump from city to city, country to country collecting their riches. However, Bloom was ready to throw it all away, he was tired of his brother writhing his life for him, and he wanted a way out. Stephen promised him this final con would be their way out, but as the movie goes on, it becomes increasingly harder and harder to tell whether or not Stephen is still living the con he has written, or that this is in fact Blooms real life.

The movie reminded me a lot of a Wes Anderson film, they way it started out with the narrator and strange group of characters thrown together throughout the movie. Rain Johnson, the director and writer of this movie also both wrote and directed the movie Brick (2005). I have seen both of these movies and cannot see any similarities between the two. Both are very good, but very different. The Brothers Bloom has a very up beat comedic feeling to it with great group of characters that added their own elements to help move the plot along.

“There are no such things as an unwritten life, just a badly written one.” -Stephen