Brotherly love is a moving target.
That’s my review. See this film!
Well, I should expand… Loyalty is a theme here. And it is the loyalty as parsed out of the classic honor among thieves formula - or rather honor among the spawn of Satan.
The Proposition is set in the Australian outback and tells the story of the three Burns brothers. A British lawman, Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone) has captured two of the brothers. His proposition to Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) is to find and kill his brother Aurthur or the younger brother Mike will be hanged on Christmas day (very nice touch that).
When I discovered that this film was written by Nick Cave, I had an hipster epiphany. It just seemed so… “wrong in so many ways” that it was right.
