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On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are panning for gold and accidentally killing our new compatriots with this week\u2019s 2018 film from Jacques Audiard, The Sisters Brothers.

Yes, the Sisters brothers. Yes, they get it all the time. They\u2019ve heard all the jokes, and you really shouldn\u2019t try to\u2026 Look, we\u2019re just saying that these fellas are violent and they live in a violent time. Maybe making fun of their silly last name isn\u2019t the best idea. Don\u2019t you think? People in this film keep trying to kill them, but those same people always end up riddled with bullets. I think it\u2019s safe to say that you\u2019re not a better shot than they are, and they will take\u2026 you\u2026 out.

Now that we\u2019ve gotten the ubiquitous, don\u2019t-mess-with-these-boys warning out of the way, let\u2019s talk about the film. As with so much else, everything that happens in this one comes down to insatiable greed. I can\u2019t blame anybody. Who wouldn\u2019t want to fill their old-timey satchels with armloads of shiny gold nuggets? Not I! Give me all the riches I can carry!

Therein lies the rub: the hungry quest for riches beyond your wildest dreams is going to make you paranoid, sloppy, and downright mean. You\u2019re not going to be your best self when you\u2019re on the hunt for money. Heck, happened to Humphrey Bogart\u2019s character in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. We all saw how that one turned out.

Instead of losing yourself to an idealized vision of a possible future, why not learn to appreciate what you have in the present? For Charlie Sisters, he had to learn that his brother, Eli, was not the ungrateful killjoy he appeared. For Eli, he had to understand that his brother may end up being the death of him, but who better to go out with than the brother you love more than anything?

That\u2019s the surprising lesson to this bloody, frenzied story: your family, whether it be by blood or by choice, should be appreciated, cared for, and loved. They\u2019re going to be there for you through all of the hellish tribulations you may suffer through. They\u2019re going to forgive you, even when you find it impossible to forgive yourself. They\u2019re going to see the real value in you, even when you can\u2019t see it yourself.

Ain\u2019t that just so damn wholesome, coming from a movie that opens with a pair of brothers who ruthlessly murder a whole mess of people in the opening minutes?

(Recorded on April 05, 2021)

Links to Stuff We Mentioned:

The Sisters Brothers - IMDb

The Sisters Brothers trailer - YouTube

John C. Reilly - IMDb

Joaquin Phoenix - IMDb

Jake Gyllenhaal - IMDb

Riz Ahmed - IMDb

Game of Thrones - IMDb

Hardcore Henry - IMDb

The \u201cthrough the trees\u201d shot Steven referenced - Filmgrab

The top-down shot that Sean referenced - Filmgrab

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - IMDb

Jacques Audiard - IMDb

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - IMDb

Paul Thomas Anderson - IMDb