This is a very gloomy movie. All the colors the director uses are very dark and bland. I can't ever remember him using a bright color. I thought this was a very good technique for the director to use in this movie. It you feel just as depressed as the boys. This setting is nothing like Brother, in fact i didn'r even know that this movie was shot by St. Petersburg.
There's not much to say about the mother because we only see her during two scenes. She seems to love her kids and did a decent job raising them. In some ways she's overwhelmed by the the two of them. Maybe thats why she asked her husband to come back to help raise them. Though she doesn't appear to be excited about the homecoming of hher husband.
The father is a very intriguing character. He the kind of person you want to hate, but at the same time you can understand what he's trying to do. I was almost waiting for him to do something really horrible so I can really hate him. He's very influental on Andrey, who almost starts acting like his father towards the end of the movie. Ivan doesn't become as infactuated with his father as Andrey. Ivan doesn't understand why his father waited twelve years before he saw them. This is something that will make Ivan hate his father throughout the movie.
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While I agree with you that there's a certain gloominess to the film, I think there's also quite a bit of brightness (both in the literal and figurative sense). And while much of it seems like it should be depressing--I have to admit I enjoy watching it more and more each time. It's hard to explain, but there's something almost ritualistic about there going way out into the wilderness like that and then bringing their dad father back (or rather almost back) with them.
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