![]() ![]() "Brother" was a hard movie to watch because of its ring of truth and many dark scenes. "Brother" is the story of family love persisting through trauma, shattered dreams of a hopeful Jamaican musician, and territorial conflicts between gangs of similar backgrounds, with a final glimmer of resolution at the end. We see the bleakness of many Caribbean immigrant lives, the aura of violence that is never far away, and the problematic relationship with a lily-white 1991 Scarborough police force. The story jumps back and forth between 1981, 1991, when a tragic event occurs, and 2001 when Michael is trying to hold things together. In high school, Michael is attracted to Aisha (Delia Lisette Chambers/Kiana Madeira), a Canadian-Jamaican neighbor whose father came from the same area of Jamaica as Ruth. Michael is smaller, darker, less self-confident, and more studious in school. By his late teens, Francis is a large, physically intimidating man who acts with confidence but has some questionable friends. Francis is older than Michael by a couple of years and is protective of his family in the father's absence. She has two sons-Francis (Jacob Williams/Aaron Pierre) and Michael (David Odion/Sabastian Nigel Singh/Lamar Johnson). ![]() ![]() Ruth (Marsha Stephanie Blake) is a Jamaican immigrant to Toronto, Canada. It follows a Canadian-Jamaican family in Scarborough, Ontario, over 20 years from 1981 to 2001. ![]()
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