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In the Company of Men: The Brotherhood
This third and final film in Molly Dineen’s three-part series builds towards the ‘The Prince of Wales' company of the Welsh Guards’ symbolic victory parade in Brussels.
Director: Molly Dineen
Overview
The third and final film of Molly Dineen’s three-part series, The Brotherhood builds towards the 'The Prince of Wales' company of the Welsh Guards’ symbolic victory parade in Brussels. It is here that we get the strongest sense of military discipline and ritual. When two guardsmen are caught asleep on duty, they return to face a formal Memorandum. The harshness of their punishment is surprising, but so too is the strict theatricality of the process, a theatricality that is mirrored in the company's meticulous rehearsal for the upcoming parade.
The differences in background, opportunity and ambition between the officers and the guardsmen is a recurring theme of Dineen’s In the Company of Men trilogy. In one sequence in The Brotherhood, Dineen contrasts the officer's formal dinner party and disco with the men's lively trip to a local pub. However, it is the loyalty and fraternity that army life inspires that leaves the most lasting impression.
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