I was really left scratching my head by Dorian Pakowitz' brother. There was a clip of him where he just had a complete over the top breakdown when he was talking about Dorian. He could hardly speak because he was so torn up about... Well, that's what I'm asking. Did I miss something? The way the brother went on you'd have thought Dorian was the Zodiac killer. What gives?
shareIt was weird yes...
I think he was sort of defending his brother with this little speech. 'Cause, as I recall it, this bit was right after all the children had talked about all the awful stuff that the father did, and how they wish that they had been able to go to school and so on. Make any sense to you?
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I saw it as a deep lament that Dorian was so misunderstood. He was truly seeing the beauty in his brother and the gifts that he's been given, but crying because of the hardships and misunderstandings that this has caused Dorian thoughout his life. To the point of now having some of his children estranged from him (well, until the reunion that is). It was a really beautiful scene to see someone recognise the gifts in this man and be so torn up about it.
shareThis stood out to me because in the beginning his brother said, "Dorian is crazy...and I mean crazy in the best possible way." Then in this scene the same brother completely breaks down, ironically lamenting his brother's pain and suffering, which we never see on display. I say ironically because the brother lamenting is far more emotional about it than we ever see Dorian. That is until the reunion, when all the children have come back to "complete the circle" and Dorian buries his head in his wife's neck weeping and saying "Can you believe it?!?" It shows that his little brother was right, that despite all his certitude and prophetic passion, he was feeling all the rejection and pain.
We see the same sibling manifestation among the children as well, with the younger emoting what the older endure. A great connection in this film.