"The two men couldn't be more different, and Ahmad Santos' costumes reflect this internal disparity. The warm and caring Chris, who wears tidy clothes and pristine white sneakers, has no trouble saying he loves his brother. In contrast, TJ, a twitchy, jittery mess in a stretched-out t-shirt and long, fraying shorts, is incapable of receiving that affection. An even deeper difference, though, is revealed when the brothers talk about women."
"Chris is engaged to someone named Belinda, and TJ relentlessly pokes at the relationship, throwing around crude terms for the female anatomy and suggesting Belinda calls all the shots and tricked Chris into agreeing to marry her. TJ, however, has romantic feelings of his own for a woman named Fiadh (Olivia Mathews)."
TJ is a man born in an infamous Irish mother-and-baby home who harbors deep hatred for the birth mother who left him there. He lives in a cluttered Dublin apartment and is visited by his affable brother Chris, who was raised alongside him in New York by their adoptive parents. Chris is warm, tidy, engaged to Belinda and openly affectionate; TJ is twitchy, abrasive, and disparages women while nursing romantic fixation on Fiadh. Costumes and performances underscore the brothers' differences. The work draws on far-right internet group dynamics and folklore, depicting unsettling misogyny and simmering violence without gratuitous shock.
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