I just wander if there is a credit mention to the fact that this movie has been based on or adapted from a book 'The Carnivorous Lamb' by Agustin Gomez-Arcos. The book was written in French and was a winner of the Prix Hermes 1975. The book has more complex bizarre tale during post civil war with metaphor for the future of Spain. This film is a contemporary tale of unusual love and passion between two brothers, however it starts so similar to the Chapter 2 of the book, when Thomas opened his eyes after his birth and unhesitatingly looked straight at his brother Francisco. That was why I thought that this movie was based or adapted from the book 'The Carnivorous Lamb' by Agustin Gomez-Arcos.As a contemporary tale is engaging but it is short of reasons why this seemingly brotherhood love between two brothers are so lasting to become sexual passions in their adult lives. Is it simply a result of the deep love affection they have shared for their mother as shown in a swimming scene?

*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.

whoever came up to an idea to make this movie was just trying to make a movie about two guys in love with each other. first of all, this world is already struggling too hard to be OK with the idea that there are those who prefer the same gender. and here we have a story about two brothers who are in love with each other to the extent of being sexually intimate. come on, this is weird even for us gay guys. I mean, some of us also have brothers but have we ever thought of being in that kind of relationship with them? no. and you know why? because IT IS TOO WEIRD.second thing. even if this movie was about to tell the love story between two guys, it failed to do so because whoever made it is not really familiar with what love really is. love is not some attachment to object of love that prevents us to do other things and to think about something else other than that someone. love is not a feeling that numbs us in times when we are apart from our loved ones. love should make us stronger to bear those times. this movie is someone's immature apprehension of love.the story is not developed at all. there wasn't any tension shown in characters in times of their separation. the other guy that left for Russia was only shown in two or three scenes. how he spent his time over there wasn't shown at all except that he walked along the streets of some distant city with headphones in his ears and that's it. the guy that stayed in Brazil, what's his name, allegedly is a doctor but all he did was visiting night clubs few times and having that awkward grin on his face almost the whole time, whether it was funny situation or not.I rarely complain about movies that I have seen but this was a complete waste of time. an hour and a half of life is lost.