As the name suggests, Brothers, directed by Max Barbakow, is the story of two siblings who, from a very young age, entered the world of crime and started committing burglaries. Jady and Moke had very distinct personalities, and a lot of the time, their viewpoints clashed with one another. Their mother left them when they were quite young, and it had been 30 years since the woman went missing. Moke missed his mother, but he was helpless, and he didn’t have any option other than to move ahead with his life. So, let’s find out what happened in the film and if the brothers ever got reunited with their mother.
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How did Jady come out of jail?
Jady and Moke Munger, the twin brothers, came from a family of felons, and all their lives they had seen their family members committing crimes and running from the law enforcement authorities. At the beginning of Brothers, we saw that Cath Munger, Jady and Moke’s mother, came running to their home with her partner Glenn. They had stolen emeralds, and as usual, the entire state police force was behind them. Moke was extremely disheartened to know that, once again, their mother wouldn’t be spending Thanksgiving with them. He craved his mother’s presence in his life, and she didn’t seem to understand what her priorities should be. While leaving, Moke asked her mother to take them with her, but her reply left him heartbroken. She told her kids that she didn’t have any use for them, and so she couldn’t take them. Moke didn’t know how a mother could be so unaffectionate towards her kids. He didn’t know if she even loved them or not. Cath escaped with Glenn, and during their chase, the latter decided to swallow all the emeralds so as not to let the police take them away from them. But Glenn couldn’t swallow the emeralds properly, and he died on the spot, leaving Cath to fend for herself. Cath buried the body of her partner at a particular spot and then escaped from there. Jady and Moke grew up to carry on the family tradition and became burglars. Moke was a gifted lockbreaker, and there was no safe in the world that he couldn’t break open. Jady, on the other hand, was the one who made all the plans and laid out the blueprint of every heist. Had it been up to Moke, he wouldn’t have become a fugitive, but Jady’s presence didn’t let him leave this life behind. During one such heist, the police caught Jady and put him behind bars. Moke was able to escape, and he started a new life. He married a girl named Abby and decided to lead a normal life. But things changed when Jady made a deal with a prison guard named Farful and got discharged on account of good behavior after serving 5 years in the prison.
Why did Jady keep Moke in the dark?
Farful’s father was a judge, and so Farful asked him to grant an early release to Jady. Jady had told Farful that he had emeralds in his possession and that he would give him 50 percent of the proceeds when he made the sale. Farful believed that he would be able to keep a tap on Jady’s movements once he was out, but that didn’t happen. Jady was able to escape, and he was able to convince Moke to help him for one last time. Jady knew that so long as Moke was employed, he wouldn’t be willing to take any risk. So he called Moke’s employer and pretended to be an officer from the labor and employment bureau. He told Moke’s boss about his background, and eventually the boss had no option but to fire Moke. Abby was livid, and she didn’t want her personal life to be hampered because of Moke’s actions. Moke made an excuse, telling Abby that he had to accompany Jady to visit their grandmother as she was on her deathbed. Moke had no clue what the real plan was, and Jady kept his brother in the dark because he was well aware of how he would react. Cath was in contact with Jady, and she had asked him not to tell his brother anything about her involvement. She knew how Moke could lose his calm and get all emotional. Jady went and stole the identity card of a woman named Bethesda (the woman who had a pet orangutan at her place), whom he met during his stay in the prison. He needed her ID so that he could steal a bulldozer from her work place and then use it to dig up the corpse of Glenn and take out the emeralds that he had swallowed back in the day. Moke eventually figured out that his mother was also part of the plan and that his brother had been behind him getting fired from his job. Moke met his mother after 30 long years, and he was livid as the woman had never tried to contact him for all that time. Moke didn’t want to be a part of the plan, but the love he had for his family and, somewhere, the greed to earn quick money didn’t let him leave.
How were Jady and Moke able to escape?
Farful was able to catch Moke and Jady, and he asked Cath to give the emeralds to him if she wanted to save her kids. But Cath ran with the emeralds, and Moke once again got triggered as he realized that whatever feelings he had about her were absolutely right. Moke always felt that his mother didn’t love them and she could throw them under the bus if the need arose. Moke and Jady were able to track down their mother, who had gone to their uncle’s place to sell the emeralds. Cath and both her kids got struck in a shopping center. Farful also arrived at the scene with a shotgun, and he threatened them to come out and hand over the emeralds to him if they wanted to stay alive. The police also arrived at the shopping complex and surrounded the building. That was the moment in Brothers when Cath proved Moke wrong. To save her kids, she handed herself over to the police while Moke and Jady escaped from the back door of the complex. Now Farful’s father, who was the judge, had Jady’s gun that had his finger prints over it. Moke gave him all the money he got after he sold the emeralds in exchange for that gun. Jady also wanted to express his love for his brother, and so he used all his money to open a life trust fund for Moke’s daughter. Moke didn’t understand why he would do that, as he believed that after giving Judge Farful his share, he would take money from Jady if he needed it in the future.
Brothers’ ending, in a twisty turn of events, revealed that Cath still had some emeralds with her that she had swallowed just before the police caught her. She secretly handed over the emeralds to Jady when the entire family came to meet her in the prison. Though Jady didn’t tell Moke anything, the latter saw him taking the emeralds. At the end, we also got to know that apart from those couple of emeralds, Jady had secretly kept one for himself. Things ended well for the Munger family, though I don’t think Jady had any plans to retire from the crime world. I believe it was just a matter of time before the brothers found themselves stuck in another perilous situation.
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