They met at a Harvard party in 2003 as students, years before Facebook made him wealthy. She graduated with a biology degree, became a pediatrician, and they married in 2012 after nearly a decade together. Shared history from before the money tends to matter more than later net worth.
Matt Welsh is a Christian, and is trashing Nolan’s obviously Christianised version of the Odyssey.
And then under this post he recommends Eggers’ The Northman, which is an explicitly pagan story, on the basis that it takes you into the mind of a pagan warrior. 1/2
Nolan’s recent work speaks to me because he seems to understand the historical moment we’re in: a civilization collapsing on itself as a result of its own sins. We, the youth, are Telemachus, coming to age in an ending world. https://t.co/Knlpc7PCX8
It’s sad seeing people so consumed by the culture war that they can’t experience The Odyssey for what it actually is. Nolan made a sweeping, emotional epic with a message about humanity that it doesn't beat you over the head with. Whether you end up loving it or not, reducing it to another front in an online political battle feels like missing the point entirely.
@AvdullahYousef I see Islam as a combination of the virility seen in the tales of Old Greece and Rome, but with the civilizing and merciful effect of Christianity all in one. Not either or.
@AvdullahYousef 1. Muslims were not some pagan barbarians raiding and sacking cities.
2. Yes, those posters are holding double standards for Muslims and their own because they can’t be consistent + Low IQ.
3. Muslim and Christian morality is far closer than most would believe in both sides.
@Archetypical20 It was one of the few complaints I had about the film, specifically his crew, I feel like it made it less immersive when there was a clear Indian or Asian stating their Greek name
@johnandrewwords Yes, nice to see someone else noticed this. People were critiquing Nolan’s stating it over-moralized Odysseus, to me it made Odysseus Christian.