Blood Brothers: Bara Naga||the game of loyalty and betrayal

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I have never seen a Malaysian movie before now, in fact, I don't have a knowledge of how they acted in their movie, but the one I just finished watching is WOW.

The Blood Brothers is a movie I wouldn't forget in a rush and this is because of so many intrigues as brought forward by the movie through its character such as Sharnaaz Ahmad, who acted as Ghaz and a head or leader of a gangster group. Also, we have in the movie Shukri Yahaya who acted as Fadlan, a lawyer who is a son to the overall leader of the group, Dato.
Also we have in the movie Syafiq Kyle who acted as Ariff, a loyal boy to Ghaz in the movie. We also have other characters like Jaki, Sheila who was the wife of Ghaz and so many other actors who acted well in the movie.

The movie, Blood Brothers Syafiq Yusof and Abhilash Chandra and the main language used in the movie is the Malay language, but being subtitled into English language.

THE PLOT

The movie is a crime thriller action movie that was full of intrigue from the start to the finish.

The movie is about a young man called Arrif who was loyal to his brother, a man who brought him into the Naga brotherhood. His loyalty to his brother, Ghaz was put to test when he was wrongly alleged for the death of his mother's newly wedded wife Sheila by an unknown assailant.

In his effort to prove himself innocent of the allegation, he faced many trials which left him to be confused of what to do while searching for the video clips of the incident as recorded by his biological brother Jaki.
So, while looking for the video clips from his brother pen drive, Ghaz the husband of the deceased was busy looking for him to kill, thinking he, Ariff had betrayed, but it's in the process that the cat was let out of the bag and the secret of who killed the young and newly wedded bride, Sheila was revealed.

It's when he was on a revenge mission that he got to know that the security architecture of the old man, Dato, who handed over power to him by stepping down as the leader of the Naga group had been compromised by the killer of his wife who happened to be the brother of the wife and the son of the old man, Dato, in his effort to fight back and protect the man, he got shot and the man was also killed.

He was quickly rushed out of the scene and got treatment by Ariff's friend who happened to be a nurse.

However, he decided to take revenge on the perpetrators of the dastardly act, but Ariff this time around would not support that. He told him that he had involved the police, but when the police came, he had left.

Though the police was hellbent on handling the matter, but they were also attacked and this was what led to the final battle where the scores were being settled by the actors involved and the battle that started just because of Fadlan feeling betrayed for not being chosen as the head of the Naga group by his supposed father, was put to rest and normalcy was returned to the community. Though the police threatened fire and brimstone, it didn't hold water.

THEME AND ANALYSIS

The movie like I said earlier is an interesting one and it's also a crime thriller movie which is full of intrigue and suspense.

One major theme of the movie is betrayal. The evidence of betrayal can be seen written and acted all over the movie.

The act of betrayal in the movie started with the choice of Ghaz by Dato as his successor. His supposed son, Fadlan, would have thought he would be the one to be chosen by the father, but since the father could not really trust him, he chose an outsider to be his successor. Maybe if that had not happened in his choice of a successor, maybe the spilling of bloods and the killing that took place wouldn't have happened.

Also, Fadlan killing his sister just because of his revenge mission on what his father did to him was a wrong move on his part, though he had the right to protest, but not by killing his sister, Sheila. So, this act is an act of betrayal as well.

Furthermore, we can also see the theme of loyalty in the movie. The way Ariff stood by Ghaz is a show of loyalty. Also, the way one of the body guards stood his ground not to divulge where the video was even unto the point of his death is also an act of loyalty.

In addition, the theme of loyalty can be seen in the way Ghaz stood and took revenge of his dead wife and also his unflinching loyalty to his boss, Dato is another way loyalty was portrayed in the movie.

There are also other themes of love and revenge in the movie. The theme of love can be seen between Ghaz and Sheila. Both are lover birds who would not joke with each other. Also, the kind of love that existed between Ariff and his brother and nephew cannot be overemphasized in the movie.

What is the theme of revenge? This theme can be seen in the way Fadlan took the life of Sheila, his sister, to take revenge against the choice of his father. As if that's not enough, the killing of the body guards is also another kind of a revenge and Ghaz coming back to take the life of Fadlan and his cohort is another theme of revenge as acted out in the movie.

The theme of deceit is another theme I would be talking about in the movie. Ghaz saved Brother Sam out of his love for him, but him telling him to run when he was supposed to kill him as agreed upon is a form of deceit, but thank God he didn't kill him.as he was the one that came to his rescue at the end.

Lastly, the theme of murder where both innocent and those who were not innocent were killed in the movie can be seen clearly in the movie. It's very pathetic.

But one thing I didn't like so much about the movie is that of performing all these dastardly acts in the presence of a toddler. Those scenes of killing and gunshots in the presence of a toddler can serve as a trauma to that young kid. But overall, the movie is an interesting one and I would love to watch it over and over again.

One thing I love so much about the movie is its clear pictures and the way it's being subtitled for easy understanding.

RATING

I would rate the movie 7/10.

Thanks for reading.

Poster picture sourced.

All other images are from the movie's screenshots.