My Brother the President
Idea for a film
My brother the President is a drama-comedy
about twin brothers, one that is very successful, will become the President and
will end up being shot, and another that never achieved anything, did not
finish his studies and is publicly declared a failure by the journalists
investigating the President. The dichotomy is like the one in the movie Amadeus
between Mozart and Saliery. A bitter story of jealousy
and revenge by a man incapable of suffering how great his brother is, while his
own personal failure is taking gigantic proportions.
The tone of the film is irony, sarcasm and
bitterness. We see the film from the point of view of one twin witnessing from
a young age how more intelligent and successful his brother is, and how bad his
life is compared with him. At the same time he knows his brother well, he is
not perfect, some of his secrets surely could destroy
such a promising career? The more he does to stop his brother, the more known
and successful his brother becomes.
Financial scandals, sexual assaults, drug
addiction, nothing will stop his brother from becoming President. Until some of his policies become unpopular and he receives death
threats. While the other brother tries to comfort his mother, at the
same time he wishes that an assassination attempt will succeed. When it fails,
he decides to take the matter in his own hands and succeeds in eliminating his
brother.
All is well the next day, for the first
time the twin brother feels a big weight has been lift off his shoulders.
Suddenly journalists and police are there to arrest him. In a court case he
pleas for his life, showing how justified he was to kill his own brother, how
terrible a person he was, and that it was criminal to let him continue on his
path of destruction. He will not have left his brother go down in history as a
hero or one of the best ever President, as this was too much for him.
Then new evidences show that while the twin
brother tried to kill his brother, he did not succeed. Another assassination
attempt by a terrorist group was responsible for the death of the President.
The film ends with the failure brother running for presidency after he served
for a few months for his murdering attempt.
Roland Michel Tremblay