Not too deep but deep enough to move you in its analysis of traumatized minds. A young man arrives at his older brother's house in a faraway country. He hasn't seen his brother for many years because the latter had abandoned his family to become a writer in the sequence of some family traumas of which we become aware as the movie develops itself through a few flashbacks in colour (the rest of the movie is black and white). The re-approximation between the two brothers reveals itself very difficult, with ups and downs mainly because the elder brother, Tetro, behaves himself like rejecting his family which the younger one tries to overcome unsuccessfully. The story progresses around some writings scribbled by Tetro with a not so clear meaning which the youngest one gets hold of in secret in order to become aware of facts and situations that affected their family. But when Tetro knows this a big row breaks out between them and they severe relations totally till a later moment when after some vicissitudes the younger brother ends up by changing those writings into a theatre play which eventually wins a literary competition not without that this literary adaptation had first caused another conflict between the two brothers when Tetro knew what his brother had done. The plot ends up in an unexpected final when a surprising dramatic past situation is revealed to the younger brother in a scene of great dramatic impact. A good movie though not exceptionally good for some details would need more psychological depth and remain not so clear being presented somehow superficially from the psychological standpoint like for instance the past relationship between their father and a former Tetro's girlfriend when he still lived with his father and his younger brother wasn't yet born.
