Movie Review: "O'brother where art thou"

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"O'brother, where art thou" is a  film made by the Coen Brothers in 2000. It stars George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Nelson. The film is has elements of Homers epic "The Odyssey", in the sense of we have the sirens, the link between George Nelson (bank robber) and Hermes the God of Theives and the main characters are both somewhat similar. They both have a roguish trickster quality, and are both plagued by their own vanity. The main character in O Brother is obsessed with his hair, and is always trying to protect it and find his elusive "Dapper Dan" hair product. Odysseus is obsessed with his own reputation. There isnt and strong mirroring between the two stories, it seems more like the Coen brothers wanted to contain nods to the epic poem, rather than replicating it.

Also the film is set in 1937, during the great depression, in rural missisipi. The movies title is a reference to 1941's Sullivans Travel, in which the protagonist is a director who wants to film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", a fictional book about the Great Depression. In order to make the film feel more of its time the music throughout is period folk music, as well as this the film was golour graded to have a sepia-tone.

To me the film was a solid represenitive of the time, and the great depression and the references to the rascium and the KKK were a good addition to bring the film together. My only issue is it felt like the film was trying to make to many references to the period that you loose the story, which was very flimsy, as it is hard to see what the final outcome is meant to be until the end. The best part of the film was the Coen Brothers homage to the Foggy Mountain Boys, and the song "Man of Constant Sorrow". The soundtrack was such a hit that it won a grammy award for soundtrackof the year in 2001.
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