![]() ![]() The opening shot shows three prisoners escaping from a chain gang. In the same spirit, "O Brother" contains sequences that are wonderful in themselves-lovely short films-but the movie never really shapes itself into a whole. ![]() Quite possibly no one before Homer saw the developing work as a whole. Homer's epic grew out of the tales of many storytellers who went before their episodes were timed and intended for a night's recitation. If these elements don't exactly add up, maybe they're not intended to. The movie's title is lifted from Preston Sturges' 1941 comedy "Sullivan's Travels" (it was the uplifting movie the hero wanted to make to redeem himself), and from Homer we get a Cyclops, sirens bathing on rocks, a hero named Ulysses, and his wife Penny, which is no doubt short for Penelope. Bluegrass music is at the heart of the film, as it was of " Bonnie and Clyde," and there are images of chain gangs, sharecropper cottages, cotton fields, populist politicians, river baptisms, hobos on freight trains, patent medicines, 25-watt radio stations and Klan rallies. ![]()
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