O’ Brother Where Art Thou?

This motion picture is a very close adaptation of The Odyssey by Homer but in more modern way than Homer’s time. The theme is the same as the book. The characters are all similarly adapted. The way Ethan and Joel Coen makes this movie is very interesting in the sense of cinematography and even in the plot.

It’s not the destination but the journey.

The story is about Everet (George Clooney) and his other two friends adventure to look for treasure. Everet is the anti-hero in this story. He is a man with so many flaws. He talks a lot and seems like a person who does not have any goal in life. He just follows where life leads him. His goal of this journey is basically to go home to stop his wife from marrying other man. In his journey, he met many people and incidents that give him a lesson in life and able to change him to be a better person. This story is also about the adventure that reveals the value of friendship and about life’s journey into salvation.

About changing

In the story we can see how three of them fight negative elements inside them, for example from a criminal they try to become good citizen. They even try to redeem themselves in the ceremony at the river. They start the journey with very ‘stupid’ action of running from the police and have to go through many adventures, at the end they become a star. At the end of the story all three of them become a better person than before they began the journey.

Submitted to:
Airil Haimi Mohd. Adnan
Course Tutor TSL570, UiTM Perak