The Brothers Grimm - watch free
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Watch The Brothers Grimm film. A film “The Brothers Grimm” by Terry Gilliam. I don’t think myself overly literary for reading Bruno Bettelheim’s “The Uses of Enchantment,” but forgive me for being obscure. In his book, Bettelheim analyzes common fairy tales for their underlying psychological and cultural meanings. This dark-humored film relates the completely-fictional story of the famous German brothers, Wilhelm (Matt Damon) and Jakob (Heath Ledger) Grimm, who created dozens of fairy tales and nursery stories for children in the early 19th Century. Someone compared the movie to Burton’s Big Fish, another film dismissed or ignored by critics and public. Although Burton’s and Gilliam’s sensibilities differ, I take the writer’s point. The confident, poetic handling of myth and archetype in both astonishes. Watch free full The Brothers Grimm film online.
