I am about the same age as the Goss brothers, and yes, I also have experience of family tensions and sibling rivalry. But these two, and their separate talents, are just too self-absorbed to get along with anyone, most of the time, it seems
I remember dancing along to their tunes when I was younger, but I always thought of them as 'One Hit Wonders'.
Which is why it's great to see that they have worked hard to use their individual talents and create new careers for themselves.
But I can't help but feel that moving to the States has influenced their attitudes and mind-set in some ways.
They are, after all, London lads and that is a huge amount of their appeal. But the Hollywood/Las Vegas superficiality and all things spiritual in a typical California style (large crystals in Matt's house) seems to have affected their outlook and approach to the things in life that really matter.
I liked the flash backs and their watching them trace back their roots in London together, but their inability to compromise with one another is frustrating.
In particular, Matt appears to have been affected quite a lot by the shallow, glitzy world of LA and celebrity status, much more so than Luke.
At first I thought, wait a minute, if their identical twins, why is one bald and the other one not?
Of course it became obvious that Matt dons a hairpiece and struts around trying to look like someone incredibly important. He looks younger than Luke. Plastic surgery perhaps? And he behaves like a petulant spoilt brat. In some scenes he comes across like a real Prima Donna and I couldn't help but think is this just simply attention seeking.
All in all, the documentary is interesting, especially if you were around in the eighties and it shows how two people who biologically couldn't be closer, but are in many ways, so far apart.
Review of After the Screaming Stops
