O Brother Where Art Thou? – review

  When I learned about Greek Mythology in school Homer’s “The Odyssey” was a part of what we studied.
I’ll admit parts were very interesting to read and some parts were not but when a movie entitled, “O’ Brother Where Art Thou” came on TV and looked strangely liked The Odyssey, I was glued to the TV.

The movie, released in 2000, starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Chris Thomas King and many others, is set in the 1930′s with three convicts on a chain gang escaping prison. George Clooney is the instigator and convinces his two connected partners to leave with him on the pretense that George had hid $1M from a robbery in a secret location. Well, when the trio break out they start on a eclectic adventure that finds them running into Muse’s, a club wielding bible salesman, a blues guitar star who has sold his soul to the devil, and running smack dab into the wrong side of the Klu Klux Klan. All this while being chased relentlessly by the police.

When my spouse and I first watched this, she turned to me and said, “this is weird, I’m going out with my friends” and off she went while I sat and enjoy the movie. She found it odd with a winding plot that, even though adventurous, was hard to follow. I found the adventures that the trio found themselves beset by during their quest humorous with surprising twists and turns. The soundtrack is fun too, with old time blues tunes appropriately set in.

O’Brother Where Art Though, (for more info on the movie click HERE) is worth the rental fee or if it shows up on cable definitely worth the time to watch it. George Clooney is very good in a different kind of role for him as con man then redeemed man in this modern Homeric class adventure.