The dark humor of faith and science coexisting

Jerod 2022-03-23 09:01:19

The film is a good representation of the transitional period of God and Science in the 1930s in the United States when belief and human reason co-existed.

In the last paragraph of the film, the hero said: "There is a reasonable scientific explanation for what happened just now, and the South will soon change."

Immediately after seeing the cow on the roof, he said, "It won't change right away" and retracted his statement.

It shows that the Coen brothers feel that faith and reason still coexist in this land, as well as the existence of chance and uncertainty. Here, faith and reason are not the right answer. The only answer is to rely on fate as the three of them have experienced. its natural.

A lot of good music appeared in the movie, which also reflected the rise of American country music at that time.

This movie is not a comedy!

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Extended Reading
  • Santos 2022-04-20 09:01:12

    The music was so good that I thought the movie was serving the soundtrack. This kind of adaptation is really exciting and encourages me, people who haven't read the original story, to read it.

  • Crawford 2022-03-24 09:01:18

    Political satire + country music. Think about it after watching "Odyssey"~

O Brother, Where Art Thou? quotes

  • Ulysses Everett McGill: Pete's cousin turned us in for the bounty.

    Pete: The hell you say! Wash is kin!

    Washington Hogwallop: Sorry, Pete, I know we're kin, but they got this depression on. I got to do for me and mine.

    Pete: I'm gonna kill you, Judas Iscariot Hogwallop!

  • Ulysses Everett McGill: The old tactician has got a plan. For the transportation that is, I don't know how I'm gonna keep my coiffure in order.

    Pete: How's this a plan? How we gonna get a car?

    Ulysses Everett McGill: Sell that. I figure it can only have painful association for Wash.

    Pete: [reading] "To Washington Bartholomew Hogwallop, from his loving Cora. Amor Fidel... is."

    Ulysses Everett McGill: It was in his bureau. I figure it'll fetch us enough cash for a good used auto-voiture, and a little left over besides.