*SPOILERS I GUESS ?* Ugh i'm so torn about this movie because honestly i'm not very emotional (unless a dog dies) but it made me cry but i watched it twice, once i was 17 and today (i'm 21)and the 1st time i taught it was a beautiful piece of art and now i still think it's beautiful but it's TOO easy and perfect to feel like something that would really happen in real life! even in fairy tales they have problems and here their mother dies and even with the close relationship they both had with her their first tough is to have sex ... like ?! what surprised me the most is that we didn't have the chance to see their relationship grow, we saw them when they were 6 and 11 and then BAM they're 22 and 27 ! like what happened during their teenage years ? did they date other people ? did they have sex before ? did they wait till 22 and 27 to have sex for the FIRST TIME?!! and with a mother so loving it's weird to think that she never asked any of them if they were gay/straight ?like u can't have your son be 27 YEARS OLD without dating anyone and be like "oh it's normal" ! so really it's hard to focus on the beauty and poetry of the movie when so many gaps remain.

Oye, oye, oye!If you are a homophobic prude, you can as well stop reading this as from now itself.I just watched 'Do Começo ao Fim' (From Beginning to End), an absolutely beauteous movie about the controversial, and incestuous love in between Francisco and Thomas.I have been thru some gay movies, which sadly and usually end tragically, and have me depressed for awhile as well.Movies climaxing into suicides or AIDS, and other inauspiciousness.Whichever, I now think that the idea of a tragic end is to establish the harm our society is culprit of, and against homosexuality.Anyhow, not to digress any further, the movie was stunning; the acting was impeccable, the protagonists were drop-dead gorgeous! And 'worse', this movie has had me awed by the love rather than disgusted by the theme.The fierce, fiery portrayal of love in between two men, made me forget that theirs was incestuous; which is why it is also disturbing, because I validated their love due to having been swayed away from the incest part.It forced me to think if we really understand love, if love should be restrained by anything; does that make this movie one which has been successful into making something we deem as hideous and heinous, as beautiful and pure?I do not see myself loving my brother this 'way', and as I think of it now, it is nauseating.Nevertheless, the story would not have been as vivacious if the incest was absent; the movie depicts the birth of love as Thomas opens his eyes (You'll know why if you watch the movie, and don't read it on Wiki please!), how this love has always been there, instead of being something that is 'nurtured'; is the idea then, to make us 'believe' that this kind of love is 'innate'.I don't know, I really don't, but what I felt like throughout, was the submission of Thomas to Francisco's love; the ache of Francisco's when Thomas was absent for awhile; the ravenous passion they had for each other; the longing they had for each other; the care, the togetherness, the love that there was in between them.It's an amazing and powerful movie you should watch – for a big change.Last but not the least; the music is heavenly, divine and otherworldly!PS This is not really a movie review but only my point of view.

"From Beginning to End" is a lush, slow paced study of the subject of incest. The story does not present itself with horns blaring and sirens screaming, but rather goes beneath the surface of such artificial stereotype to showcase how love grows. Brothers can be close and often an older brother is charged to 'look out for' his younger sibling by their parents. This film goes well beyond that premise but not in a sensational way. The relationship of the brothers as youngsters is given ample exposure and sensitivity. The viewer is allowed into the their world and their understanding of themselves and each other. The male lead actors bring endearing skill and stirring emotion to their portrayals. The younger actors lay a brilliant groundwork which the adult actors bring to fulfillment as the characters reach adulthood. The naturalness of their closeness isn't forced, nor beyond comprehension. They belong to each other, together. It was a joy to watch these characters grow and develop and yes, love. Sensual and inspiring, you'll want to watch it again and again.

I don't understand why mutually consenting sex between brothers near the same age is a big deal. It's not as if they would produce deformed offspring. That particular taboo makes no sense to me. I'm not advocating gay incest, but horror at the idea of sex between brothers – even in a movie, and even among gay men – mystifies me. I've never been at all attracted to my own brother, but two brothers' falling in love in a movie does not make me the least bit uncomfortable. I don't feel compelled to try to twist it into something else that's more acceptable.People who say it's easy to forget that Francisco and Thomás are brothers in the latter half of the movie must be TRYING to forget it, because the movie never stops affirming the fact that that's what they are. Fighting that battle while trying to enjoy a movie must detract a lot from the enjoyment.This is a flawed but interesting and unusual movie, and I can understand why even the many positive reviews it gets have trouble describing it. It has been called a fairy tale because Francisco and Thomás seem to live in a dream world as cut off from the real world as Sleeping Beauty in her castle. But aren't all young lovers like that? Isn't that what love and hormones do to young people? Doesn't the rest of the world tend to fall away when the beloved comes into view? That's how it was when I was young.So to say that this is a fairly tale is simply to say that it is a love story. It's an unusual love story, but fundamentally it is just like any other romance movie. If anything, its depiction of the all-consuming ecstasy of young love is MORE realistic than most movies are, not less.Others have emphasized the parents' evident oblivion or even acquiescence to what is going on under their noses, but that seems to me like just another symptom of the irrational taboo I mentioned earlier. It's like: "What those boys are doing is WRONG! Why don't their parents stop it?" But, again, I ask: Why? Who is hurting whom? Nobody that I can see.When they're children, they simply love each other and love to be together, and they are freely affectionate with each other. Is that bad? Why? Should the mother slap her son when he kisses his younger brother on the head or puts his arm around him or holds him while they sleep? Why? Is fighting better? Is sibling rivalry better than sibling affection? Evidently it is to many people.Neither of those is what I see as a weakness in this movie. It's true that the movie is unreal, but what seems most unreal to me is not the brothers' relationship with each other or with their parents. That's just an extraordinarily loving and mutually accepting family, which is almost never seen in a movie or in real life but should be everybody's ideal of what a family ought to be. If that's not the unconditional love people rave about nowadays, I don't know what is.What seems most unreal to me is the other adults' relationships with each other, the fantastically loving relationships between exes and in-laws and friends who are NOT in love with each other, who are NOT caught up in the heady ecstasy of hormones and young love. That excess of affection is just plain weird.Another weakness I see is in the dialog. The core story about the brothers is fine – it's a love story – but what people say to each other is stilted and awkward, not at all the way real people talk. It's like the way people talk in TV commercials. And the problem is not just in the English subtitles, which actually are very good: what they're saying in Portuguese sounds just as phony.And the final weakness I see is in the direction. The director seems to be trying to make something besides JUST a love story, but what that other something is never comes clear. It feels as if he is intentionally trying to make it an allegory, or an epic myth, or a ballet, or something else abstract that wrestles constantly with the extremely simple love story which the movie actually is.The scene in which the adult brothers slowly undress for the first time as they face each other across the room is particularly strange, like something out of a kabuki performance. That obscure tension between what the movie is and what the director is trying to make it be doesn't ruin the movie, but it IS distracting.All four actors who play the two brothers as children and then as adults are very good and very beautiful, inside and out. What the director did an EXCELLENT job of is getting straight actors (which I assume they all are) to be so convincingly loving toward each other. Every affectionate gesture, every touch, every loving look is totally convincing. That could NEVER happen in an American or Canadian movie, or even in a European movie, and I've never seen it in any other movie from Latin America. It is a unique and astonishing accomplishment.The director also gets credit for the movie's other great accomplishment, which is simply that it got made. A movie about love, passion, unshakable devotion, loyalty, innocence, tenderness and limitless generosity between two men is rarer than hens' teeth. The scene in which they exchange wedding rings alone together at home is one of the sweetest, sexiest scenes I have ever seen. I have never seen any other movie that even comes close to the love between these two men, and I have seen hundreds and hundreds of gay movies. This is far from the best of them, but it is the most wonderful.