Blog #6

We are currently watching O Brother, where art thou? in English, and I love it! It is such an interesting movie. I remember watching like 10 minutes of it like 5 years ago and being extremely bored but now its super enjoyable. There are many connections that I have seen between the movie and the Odyssey, which it is based on. The church congregation and women who enchant the 'brothers' are analogous to the Lotus-Eaters in the Odyssey. George Nelson is similar to Odysseus, who both after great feats, robbing a bank and blinding the Cyclops respectively, vy for attention and call out there names in a vain attempt to gain recognition among the people. Also, the blind african-american man in the beginning of the movie is like Athena giving Odysseus advice on their journey and what they will encounter. I also thought that the cars were like the ships in the Odyssey that take the brothers from one place to another.