Oh Brother

Rating: 6/10 (2 January 2018)

I tend to enjoy things about movie like this. With movies like The Tree of Life or The Fountain (guess who was the director) I can find things about them. Segments which give you pause and you can just marvel at the beauty of it. The scene of The Creation of Heaven and Earth in TTL grabs your attention. The opening monologue of "The way of nature versus grace" speaks to me. How Darren Aronofsky can tell a story of a man coming to grip with the loss of his wife, so majestic and at the same time so simple.
Then you have this tub of vomit telling the greatest story ever told. Its doing well for about a 2/5ths of the movie and it goes off the rails to the point of you actually can no longer follow it and don't care too. You just want it to end. It goes from subtle hints about the story being told to ramming it down your throats. I can appreciate what the vision was but sometimes less is more.