My take on the movie (spoilers)

This movie is pretty good in that it does not give the viewer anything and it challenges you to use your own skills in human understanding and interaction. Like many of you I was, not sure what I saw at first... but that dilemma becomes addictive in that it makes you think more about the movie. Well done.


I am going to say that the dead brother is not gay, the gayest person in this film is Francis. Who most likely sexually abused his younger brother, and created an individual that did not know wether he liked girls, guys, slept around with anyone... and when Francis was told his brother was gay, it sent him into a rage, because it was he that was gay, and the fury was a reminder of his shortcomings and his destructiveness on his younger sibling.

Tom likes the farm because it was real, obviously his relationship seemed to lack solid footing and again I come back to his supposed boyfriend being with Sarah, and many others to his bewilderment... he did not even know that his bf had a brother, who he obviously did not talk about.

The USA jacket on Francis is as out of place, as his belief that he is straight, or him trying to still keep this from his mother. Whom he controls by feeding her lies, probably since puberty.


Tom did not say a word at the church, because he prepped the speech as a significant other, once he looked around he realized that no one knew that he was gay and he could not pull off the speech as just a friend.



Francis is trapped in his own lie, and can't get out of it. Can't tell his own mother. The control has manifested in a prison of his own making. Francis was the gay one.

EDIT: Reminder of how proud his brother was of having a picture of his younger sibling making out with a girl. He expresses his pride in showing this photo like a trophy, hoping like all hell that he maybe is not the reason why his younger sibling seems to have trouble of being close to people, where those the closest to him seem to know him the least (tom, the mother). The younger sibling comes across as detached.... and I honestly think it was suicide. (Francis in a way ends up killing him even if he commits suicide.) Tom's guilt seems to point to this.

EDIT2: The brother does not hesitate to control others, and you can easily see... if he was gay, he would take out his urges on his immediates much like he does with the violence. In fact, his character seems to radiate sexual energy when he gets violent, with Tom, with Sarah. This may have been the same with his brother until he was 16 and capable of running away. Those who leave home at 16, often are running away from a lot more than just violence.

EDIT3: To me Francis's character is the most complex and in a tragedy of his own making, like a Macbeth.