“nolan’s odyssey isn’t realistic!” “it isn’t accurate!” okay but it isn’t it kind of cool to make the central messaging of a thousands-year-old story told over generations resonate with modern day concerns to teach us lessons just like it did when it was first told
so much to say about the odyssey but have to start with how unbelievably emotional it made me to see a trans man as one of the first faces onscreen in one of the biggest movies of the year and called the bravest young man odysseus had ever met. elliot page was perfect.
What I LOVED about this scene is that the men hadn’t actually done anything to her… YET. Like, they kept their weapons outside and only asked for food but we’ve seen how they previously pillaged and murdered innocents. The movie asks you… was she wrong to beat them to it?
Nolan's framing of "Zeus' law" as the institutional foundation of a functional society, and what happens when that foundation is broken by men with an insatiable lust for power, wasn't lost on me.
Fitting for the time we are in.
thinking about how Nolan’s movies all are about how the most tragic thing in the universe is the act of losing precious time to be with the people you love and getting genuinely emotional
the main cast are phenomenal but man it really is the supporting performances that hold the film up even more with not as much screen time.
himesh patel, zendaya, elliot page, samantha morton, john leguizamo, samantha morton, and more all absolutely deliver
I don’t think that’s what the movie is saying tbh. I think it’s less about guilt over sacking Troy and more about guilt over the way he did it. His whole thing is wanting a fair, honourable fight (e.g. plucking the bow before hunting). Trickery goes against that ethos.
There’s a part in the final fight of The Odyssey where Robert Pattinson is going fully blown cartoony villain (“get the swords!!”) and it’s 10/10 perfection.
Underrated funny part of THE ODYSSEY is when Robert Pattinson begins talking about his childhood and they flash back to an equally sharp-cheekboned child
love the bit where R. Pattinson’s Antinous is just narrating the different weapons as they fall to the ground
“swords!….shields!…spears! get the spears!”
The final thirty minutes of Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY are among his greatest. It reframes the entire film, providing so much nuanced emotional depth. The last time I sobbed that hard in a Nolan film was INTERSTELLAR.