this movie be really a stinker . everything be good about it except the character and the writing . it have high production value and the acting be very good and but the character be shallow and narcissistic and nothing more than sum of their hangups . it like some teenage film school freshman be give unlimited resource to try to create the most quirky character ever and without a story to hang it on . perhaps it how a spoiled and rich teenager would imagine adult to be and selfish and whiny and demand and spiritually hollow . the three brother be rid a train in india in hope of find and visit their mother who fail to show up at their father funeral . we be treat to a relentless display of the brother bizarre and exhibitionistic behavior a the train trundle through the indian countryside . they behave like chronically depress 4 year old . maybe the filmmaker think he be get at contemporary angst and maybe he just think he be create amuse madcap clown in the spirit of a hard day night . but these clown aren not young and their antic do not amuse and they grate . we come to hate them as much a they hate each other . we do not care whether they find their mother or not . the old brother head be always swathe in bandage and the result of a motorcycle crash which may have be an attempted suicide . he order the other brother around and they seem unable to stand up to him . one brother read a couple of paragraph from a story he write . the story be a shallow and pretentious a this movie and these character . here the spoiler represent they do meet up with the mother ( angelica houston ) who the big narcissist of all . dress in white robe and make up with black eyeliner and she hold forth in some sort of christian mission in the foothill of the himalaya . well and you might have know it . these loser be nurture by this pompous and vain woman . no wonder . in the end the brother be run to catch the train to go home and a they run they drop their baggage . that symbolism while get it . theyre shed their baggage and right . but these character be so light you can not imagine them have any hardly weight at all and even with their baggage . without the theatrically contrive baggage they wouldn not have any material existence whatsoever . for the last hour of this film every scene look like it be go to be the last . the camera focus on the bewildered face of the brother and the music swell and the camera pull away . at last . you think . it finally over . but no and there another scene and and another and and another . at one point they witness a young boy drown in a canal . they try to rescue him and but can not . they take his body home to his village . there be a funeral . the scene be empty while it like it happen in dream . the brother appear unaffected . it be impossible to care about them . i have almost forget about this movie and i only saw it 2 day ago . please and save yourself the boredom .