O Brother Where Art Thou?

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Is this movie a cluster, or a classic? I have seen this movie at least thirty times, and it seems only to get funnier each time. I felt it appropriate to write a review on this picture primarily because of the new way I was seeing it after spending nearly four months in this course, though be it I also ran out of fun funds to see any additional theatrical performances before the course runs out as well.

Well, where do I start? Hollywood has finally created a movie that invokes the Muses, mixed it up with a bit of Tom Sawyer, some Vaudeville, and a little Keystone Cops for flavor. Hold onto your seat, because I believe someone has found the recipe for a very pleasant and entertaining story.  Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney), Pete (John Turturro), and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) have escaped from a Southern work farm.  This is not the escape of friends or comrades formed under dire circumstances but one of fate, as the three are chained together and are forced to escape as a group.  We learn very quickly that Ulysses is the brains and talker of the bunch when he scrambles into the boxcar of a moving train and begins asking some railroad hobos, in a circuitous manner, whether any among them have any skills in the art of "metallurgy."  Soon we learn that McGill has tricked his shackled brethren into escaping by luring them with the mission of seeking "treasure".  Escaping the Law and the prospect of riches start these men on a wild journey you’re not soon to forget.

This movie is rich in images and sounds that reflect the best and worst parts of what we've come to expect in pictures that depict the South.  In the worst, we see poverty, casual racism, lynch mobs, chain gangs, and the KKK.  In the best parts, (the entire 103 minutes) we find some of the most soulful music that we've ever heard. The movie used music to complement the...