the brother bloom unwind the story of two confidence men and an asian sidekick and their rich but isolated mark . the brother bloom be a charm off kilter dramedy about love . bloom ( adrien brody ) and his brother stephen ( mark ruffalo ) work a confidence men with their explosive sidekick bang bang ( rinko kikuchi ) . tire of the life and bloom tell his brother he do . his brother talk him into one final con against penelope stamp ( rachael weisz . ) penelope be a rich and eccentric shut in who have yet to live . they take advantage of her loneliness in a scam meant to satisfy her need for adventure . rian johnson see the world in the brother bloom the way an archer fish see bug . the archer fish hunt bug above the water surface by shoot water at the bug from below the water line . when look up from underneath everything look like it be one place but actually be in a slightly different place because water refracts light and change the view for the submerged . the archer fish have to see thing slightly cockeyed in order to get the archery right . rian johnson take a slightly crook approach to get the cinematic physic just right . penelope stamp be the robin hood of cinematic archer fish . everything about her life and her development and and her emotion be delightfully off balance . she isn not brilliant but she have dedicate herself to learn how to do many strange and obscure thing . it wasn not good enough for rian johnson to make penelope interested in pinhole camera ( a camera make by put a piece of photo paper in a light tight container and poke a pin hole in it to expose the paper ) and it have to be a pin hole camera make of a watermelon . johnson make sure penelope be beautiful and but by cast weisz and make her an interesting beauty . it isn not just the nature of the character and but also how they talk . johnson commits so fully to this strange ified world and that dialogue that would warrant a call to the loony bin in real life and seem natural in the world create in the brother bloom . the downside to make the character fit so naturally in their world be joke or emotion that might resonate deeply in our world sometimes fall a little flat in the brother bloom . there be no gut busting joke but occasionally the audience find themselves chuckle . cheek will not be soak in tear and but occasionally a frog may find way into the throat of the viewer . the brother bloom be an endear quirk fill film sure to whisk the audience away on a fly crime fill love carpet .