Best Movie Ever: O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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Best Movie Ever O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a very fine movie, in fact, it is one of the greatest movies ever made. The movie has every aspect that is needed to make a great movie and it is all put together very well. In my opinion it is the best movie that has ever been made, not just one of the best, the best. It is a story of amazing fellowship between three men who were on a prison farm together and escaped off to find a treasure. The movie loosely follows one of the greatest epic poems of all time, Homer’s The Odyssey. The music in the movie created an amazing mix of country, blues and bluegrass which makes the movie even better. Throughout the movie there is a perfect mix of everything was going on in the United States during the…show more content…
Throughout the whole movie there are little things that show up and can be compared with the epic tale. For starters, Everett’s first name is Ulysses, that of the main character in The Odyssey and he is set off on a journey to return to his wife at home after being away for a few years in jail. On their journey they stumble upon and blind man who is singing on a manual railroad car and speaks of where they have been and where they are going. The men are later enchanted by three women they come across on a river who they refer to after as being sirens. These women enchanted them with their singing and put them to sleep. When the men woke up Pete was missing and the remaining two assumed he turned into the frog that jumped out of Pete’s clothes that were still there. After leaving the river Everett and Delmar come across a big man blind in one eye who takes them out for a picnic in order to attack them and steal their money. When the men get back to Everett’s hometown they find out that his wife, Penny, has taken up a new man to be her husband and told their girls that he got hit by a train so they thought he was dead. All of it resembles the blind singer on the island of Scherie, the Sirens, the Cyclops, and Ulysses’s wife

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