My Father Die, written and directed by Sean Brosnan

My Father Die, written and directed by Sean Brosnan

                The plot sounds familiar…

A man kills a boy and the brother of the dead waits for a long time to extract a sweet revenge from the killer.

But is it sweet?

                Not considering the circumstances!

In The Godfather, we have seen elements that resemble aspects from My Father Die, in both parts:

One and Two.

Young Vito Corleone has to sail to America, because a local Mafioso has killed his father and then the other parent.

Many years later, decades actually, he returns in the shape of…Robert de Niro and takes his large knife out.

Vendetta!

Joe Anderson is good in the role of the hero of this film, Asher, a deaf and mute from the age of twelve.

He trains for nearly twenty years to get:

Payback

Now there is another good movie, with the ostracized Mel Gibson in the title role of a vengeful man.

Out from prison, Mel Gibson’s character tries to get his money back and make those who abused him pay.

Asher has to wait for his enemy to be released from jail.

When Ivan is finally out, he has problems with the law again.

Asher takes on a weird costume, with fur hat and glasses and is out to find where his nemesis is.

First, he has to intimidate the partner in crime of his adversary, who is also a very tough, arrogant cookie.

Therefore, we have scenes that we know from other flics.

If you do not tell me, I will torture you.

The difference here is that the messages have to be shown to the potential informer, since they are written on paper.

Remember?  The hero is deaf and mute.

When Asher shoots this hoodlum in one foot, the thug starts to reconsider his initial position that he will never talk.

As he is shot in the other foot, becoming incapacitated and later forced to use a wheel chair, the goon…

Spills the beans

Therefore, Asher has the details and interrupts Ivan the monster as he is having sex with a prostitute or sex worker, as it is probably correct to say today.

The vindictive hero hits the killer with a shovel, but this is only enough to take one eye out and there is more confrontation to come.

As it happens in all thrillers, the protagonist cannot just kill the enemies and enjoy the benefits in ten minutes of screen time.

Therefore, there is a prolonged chase, involving a motorcycle, green car and the police chasing the suspects.

The unique element in this thriller is hidden in the title.

Even though, the same Godfather, maybe the best film of all time and definitely one of the top five motion pictures, has the famous line

“ I know it was you, Fredo”