Ralph Sepe, in case you didn't know (in which case I actually have no f*cking idea how or why you've ended up here), is a moderately successful YouTube content creator known for his dryly humorous and compulsively watchable and entertaining satirical critiques of movies and TV. I am a huge fan of his content, and had yet to have seen any of his actual, more serious short film work until just a few minutes ago when I watched this strange and kind of confusing short called Brother's Paradise, which seems to have less than impressed a lot of the reviewers here on IMDb. I will admit that it is as far as far can be from perfection, but I will also admit that it kept me engaged and interested throughout its quick, but nonetheless ridiculously tragic running time. I feel like with a bigger budget (this is obviously some kind of student film shot on half a shoe string) Sepe could make a much more genuinely chilling drama, and this intriguingly disjointed narrative proves it. It feels kind of pretentious in parts, the acting is mostly mediocre (although you can tell both actors involved, one of whom is Sepe himself, are beginning to climb the ladder to success in terms of acting capability), and the storyline is, as I've already stated, pretty engaging but ultimately puzzling, which would probably work much more if the length of this film was extended. I think the concept Ralph was working with here could make for a legitimately great, original, and emotional film if he was given the budget he deserved and made it into a fully original feature length production. Too bad quality doesn't judge EVERYTHING in the movie making world, as it is a business, and business is not always about quality. To quote Frances McDormand's character in Fargo, "It's a real shame."