Cassandra's Dream (2007)

*spoilers follow*

Two brothers with different personalities receive the visit of a rich uncle, on whom they place their hopes of financial redemption. But the uncle has problems of his own.

The narrative exemplifies the trap: the first line is not so hard to cross, but once you've crossed it, you must cross a second, harder, one. If you think of the two brothers as the embodiment of two opposing tendencies within one individual, what the film exposes is how ethical concessions really break the human unity, thus destroying man. On another angle, it is a money power play, in which the rich gets richer and the poor get dead. They never had a chance, really. All performances are completely satisfactory, regardless of what you may have heard or read.

Rating: 62