O' Brother where art thou

In the film O' Brother where art thou, three men who escape from a prison chain gain, travel across Mississippi on a journey which will lead them to find treasure.  Everett Ulysses McGill, who is played by George Clooney and his partners Delmar and Pete run into many different characters along the way to get to Everetts house, while also trying to avoid the police who are chasing after them.  After picking up a black man with a guitar, the trio record a song to raise a little extra cash for their travels, but the song will eventually save them in the end.

 This movie is based off of Homers epic Novel the Odyessy, in that the characters they come accross are simular to the characters in the novel.  The group of three girls they run into on the river sing with magical voices which eventually make the main characters fall asleep, this is supposed to represent the Sirens in the Odyessy.  They then run into a man with one eye convered, who offers his buisness to them, but ends up stealing their money and car.  He represents the Cyclops.  Along with those characters they meet, are a KKK mob, a blind prophet, and a campaining govener.  When the trio find out that there is no treasure and that Everett just wanted to see his ex wife, they end up helping the govener win the election by sneaking into the campaing dinner as a folk band, and end up sinning the song they recorded earlier in the film to find out that the song is a hit. They then are pardoned from returning to prison.

This film has many different aspects throughout it.  Such as religious views.  It shows Everetts partners accepting God into their lives, and how God can help them in their journey.  The movie also shows the sign of the times of the 1930s with racism looming over the south.  since the film is set in the 1930s we as an audience see an old style setting, and the warm sunny swamp like plains of Mississippi.  We also see the rich side and the poor side of society, when the trio goes to visit one of theirs cousin, and also when they go eat at a fancey restuarnt where the meet the cyclops man.  The actors also do a good job in portraying a southern personality and created the southern accent to give us a good sense of where the setting is.     



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