Brother

This seemed like a very typical mobster movie for the 1990's. This movie reminded me a lot of lock stock a two smoking barrels, which was a movie about British gangsters set in the same time period. Both movie do some very cool things with their camera angles. The movies also have lead characters that despite all their faults still seem to be very likable characters. Both movies deal with the underworld's of two very notable cities.

Danila is good person with some very noticeable character flaws. In some ways his flaws make him a character that's easy to like. To me I almost understood why Danila was making those choices throughout the movie. Danila is a soldier and violence is the only way he knows how to solve problems. So he going to commit these crimes because there's no other way Danila can make money. Danila never kills anyone who isn't involved with the mob, this makes him appear to be more like hero than a thug. If Danila had been killing people who were innocent we probably wouldn't think so highly of him.

Russia of the 1990's seemed like a free for all. Since the oppressive Soviet government was gone everyone was trying to take a piece of the pie. It didn't seem like their was much law and order so obviously organized crime would thrive in this type of setting. It seems like Russia was and still is very confused about what direction their country will go.