On April 3, 2019, the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, announced the imposition of Sharia law. LGBT people there are punished through death by stoning, 40 lashes, and 10 years of imprisonment. It was widely condemned by the United Nations and many media outlets, calling it "medieval", "uncivilized", "inhumane", and "a return to the Stone Age".

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O Brother, Where Art Thou? stands as one of the most unique films in the already supremely unique filmography of the Coen Brothers.

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Okay, I'll admit it right off the bat. This film is, very much, an example of "minor" Coen Brothers. The story for the film was actually devised by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone (no, not that Matt Stone), and was shopped around for several years to directors such as Jonatham Demme and Ron Howard, before the Coen Brothers themselves finally picked up the project, and wrote the last draft of the screenplay. So, in that way, it's true that this film is perhaps the closest they've gotten for

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Burn After Reading is the Coen Brothers sarcastic and intentionally screwball riff on the notoriously straight laced genre of spy thriller. Intentionally taking the multitudes of tropes and plot points that fill the genre and playing them for pure absurdity, the film revels in it's madness and lack of logic, in a way that really, only a Coen Brothers film can.

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