Summary Of The Film Bra Boys: Blood Is Thicker Than Water

In 2007, Russell Crowe narrated a documentary called “Bra Boys: Blood is Thicker than Water”. The documentary is set in a small Sydney beach side suburb called Maroubra, and is essentially a biased portrayal of surf culture, localism, and gangs. In the 83 minute movie the four Abberton brothers, Sunny, Koby, Jai, and to a lesser extent, Dakota, tell the viewers the struggles and complications of being involved in the notorious surf gang, the “Bra Boys”. I find their justifications for various crimes to be highly biased and to some degree, even arbitrary.
“The Bra Boys” documentary serves to explain, or even depict, the lifestyle and complications the Bra Boys gang faced. As well as an interesting insight into their success in professional big wave surfing, however the

Directly upstairs, off duty police officers were having a party too. The Bra Boys gang knew this and chose to start a fight. They threw punches and soon a massive gang fight had started, which injured about thirty officers. Eight people were arrested, none of which were cops. They justified this by saying “the only way out was to fight”, but this simply wasn’t the case. I believe that there would have most likely been many things the gang could have done to prevent this. At any time the gang could have chosen to give up, but they chose to continue, knowing the potential consequences they might eventually face. However, this is only one of many fights the gang gets involved in over the course of the documentary. In addition to this, the gang claims that everyone wanted to “fight the Bra Boys”. Various gangs would approach the Bra Boys and apparently initiate fights. As time progressed the severity of the fights increased. They justify this by saying that they were merely standing their ground. In fact, they managed to justify all wrongdoing and intentionally try to maintain a thug like