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stories for the Children.
When you are the youngest child, it can
feel like a blessing when your older sibling
swears you to secrecy. In your mind, this
act is seen as a sign of maturity, a true
indicator that they no longer view you as
an obstacle to their happiness but as a confidant
in their grown-up world.
On the other hand, when you are the
youngest child, it can feel like a curse when
your older sibling swears you to secrecy. In
your mind, this act comes with a sense of
obligation to zip thy lip, no matter how
serious or comical the event that precipitated
this solemn vow. It is only natural
that resentment can grow through not
being able to tell, especially when it can
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put you into a more favorable light with
your parents.
Knowing a secret of an equally loved
and despised sibling can bring you closer
together or tear you apart, or it can even be
seen as something to hold above the other’s
head for the rest of your time on Earth.
With so much variety and emotion to be
had with the sibling secret, it is no wonder
the topic has been mined over and over
again through music, movies, and literature
— nary a genre is spared and rarely are
they seen as boring or unoriginal as most of
us can relate to this strange and awesome
dynamic.
The latest piece of entertainment to feature
this battle of wills between the
younger and elder is the film “Don’t Tell a
Soul,” as apt a name as ever to describe the
intrigue and dread of those words.
As the film opens, we are introduced to
Joey (Jack Dylan Grazer), a quiet 14-year
old who provides emotional support to his
widowed mother Carol (Mena Suvari), who
is battling lung cancer. Though he always
tries to keep up a reserve of endless
strength, he crumbles whenever he is
under the watchful and wrathful eye of his
17-year-old brother Matt (Fionn
Whitehead), who is well on his way to
becoming a psychopath.
Feeling as if he is the “man of the house”
now that their father is gone, Matt takes
joy in getting Joey to do his bidding, and he
knows just the right words to say and all
the right buttons to push when he wants to
bring him into his unlawful adventures.
Through the criminal grapevine, Matt
learns that a neighbor of theirs who has
been squirreling away money in their home
has left their property due to an unplanned
fumigation. Needing (and wanting) the
money, Matt hatches a plan for them to
break in and take it. At first, Joey wants
nothing to do with the B&E and theft, but
he is soon reminded that their mother
needs it to pay for her treatment and outstanding
hospital bills.
After successfully pulling off the heist,
they are spotted by a hired security guard
who gives chase. During the run-around,
the guard falls into a hidden well and the
brothers write him off as dead.
The following day, Joey goes back to the
scene to determine whether the guard is
really dead or not. He quickly discovers
that he is injured but still among the living.
Because he is inquisitive and lonely, he
strikes up a conversation with Hamby
(Rainn Wilson) and quickly takes a liking
to the sarcastic yet affable man. But with
the threat of jail in his future (Matt told
him he would take the fall for the theft and
go to prison for the rest of his life), Joey
waffles about whether he really wants to
see him out of the 20-foot well.
Over the course of a few days, Joey
brings Hamby food,
water, blankets, and
a radio so they can
converse at night,
but as he makes
more and more forays
into the forest
(and becomes more
bonded to Hamby), the more his brother
becomes increasingly belligerent and
unpredictable. Knowing that his “soft”
brother is going to get them in trouble,
Matt determines that the only way to end
this problem is to end Hamby’s life for real
this time — and that of his brothers should
he break their promise to not tell a soul.
Written with dark humor and featuring
plenty of twists and turns (some predictable,
others not so much), “Don’t Tell a
Soul” is an entertaining movie about sibling
dynamics and a different kind of sibling
secret, one of which the conscious of
one is in direct conflict with the unconscionable
other. But what makes it so is not
just the material but the acting of the two
young leads. Had Joey and Matt been
played by anyone other than Dylan Grazer
or Whitehead, I doubt it would have
worked as efficiently as it does — both play
their roles with equal parts gravity, love,
levity, and menace, particularly as their
plans go vasty astray.
With so many films not being advertised
as abundantly as before, it will be easy to
overlook “Don’t Tell a Soul.” But if you’re a
fan of strange sibling dynamics and a fan of
strange humor, you should give this one a
look should you come across it on demand
(where it is currently available for rent) or
whenever it hits the streaming platform.
Grade: B-
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