'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was a film I was told that I 'had to see' (by my parents no less) so finally today I decided that I was going to watch it. Although the film is based on Homer's masterful epic poem 'The Odyssey'; it is only so in a rather abstract and general sense. To be perfectly honest the result was rather incoherent in my opinion. The sirens seemed relatively pointless as well as harmless, the sheriff and his posse simply bizarre and the general quality of the dialogue and acting rather shabby.
The fact that the jewish producer-directors, the Coen brothers, (1) decided they were going to throw in the Ku Klux Klan as some sort of comically absurd attempt at 'evil people'. Indeed when she recommended the film my mother told me that it was a 'powerful scene', but I really didn't understand why she thought so after watching it. After all the attempted 'hanging' of the black musician by the KKK fairly randomly is just absurd and quite frankly completely ahistorical.
The Grand Wizard of the KKK is then revealed to be the populist electoral candidate Horner Stokes who is then made to randomly act like an incoherent version of Theodore Bilbo and is then promptly 'defeated' by everyone gathering around and effectively singing Kumbaya with the 'Soggy Bottom Boys'.
If anything the film is distinctly racist against White people as it portrays them almost entirely as being either extremely fat or stupid, while blacks are portrayed as polite, spiritual, attractive and highly musical people.
Is it thus any wonder that the film was entirely produced and directly by two jews: the Coen brothers.
References
(1) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190590/