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Things are at least bearable - until John's jailbird brother shows up unexpectedly. Even before we learn about the issues John and Deel had in their past, it's easy to see that ol' Deel is up to no good. There's something in that run-down house that he wants, and the Munns' already unhappy home comes crashing down completely, leaving Chris and Tim on the run. The second half of the film follows the two brothers as they try to survive on their own, and survival basically means they have to keep running. Now we see even more pitiful scenes of human discomfort - some rather heart-breaking, some disturbing, and some just incredibly weird.
With such strange characters, there's some interesting dialogue interspersed throughout the film. I have no idea what the crazy mechanic kept running on about, the only truly nice people the young brothers meet up with are borderline loonies, and Tim himself delivers a whole Shakespearian-length monologue about chiggers. I wondered what kind of resolution this movie would bring to bear in the end (actually, I wondered if it would even try to resolve anything at all) - it's not entirely effective, but there is an actual ending. It's the contrast between the two sets of brothers (although one could bring a semantic argument into the definition of brother here) that stands out as a possibility for whatever the movie was supposedly about. I'm not sure I can even classify Undertow, however - I can't stretch my definition of Southern Gothic to truly fit it, and it's certainly not a thriller. Undertow is basically just a real oddball of a movie that somehow succeeds at being fascinating despite itself.
Director David Gordon Green's two previous feature films, George Washington and All the Real Girls, explored the rich inner drama of rural landscapes and the people who inhabit them. Undertow continues in this vein with a tale that is decidedly more like a Hardy Boys' thriller. But at the same time it contains the psychological and moral density of a film like Night of the Hunter whose story it oftentimes resembles. Although Green's films thus far seem to be similarly themed he has declared that he has a great desire to make a movie about a monkey and racing that includes lots of fart gags. Jamie Bell gives a tremendous performance as a rebellious teenage boy who must quickly mature in extreme circumstances. It makes you want to follow his journey all the way to the movie's startling ending.
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