The Archic Man

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

@TheCinesthetic We were never meant to know why the derelict crashed. The mystery was the whole point!

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

IMHO, a lot of conservatives are missing the Biblical forest for the woke trees in Nolan's Odyssey. Yes, the casting of Elliot Page is silly and egregious. But here's the thing: Nolan's "The Odyssey" is an apologia for Christian morality poured into a Greek vase.

The entire movie is rooted in what Nolan terms "Zeus' law." That law is: "Treat others as you would want to be treated, because anyone might be a god." Now, clearly, there's nothing like that in Greek mythology. It's not implicit in Homer. It's a direct rip from Biblical morality, substituting "because anyone might be a god" for "because man was made in the image of God."

Nolan then takes this rule and uses it as his moral glue: the idea is that Odysseus, in utilizing the Trojan Horse, violated Zeus' law and led to full-scale slaughter. That sin has led to the unleashing of broader globalized sin (the "sea peoples" who don't respect Zeus' law and are invading surrounding areas). This is a highly Biblical message: that sin is infectious, and that sin also affects the world at large, not just the sinner.

Odysseus has sinned, and he must atone for that sin through self-imposed exile. He must also sacrifice his own aspirations to restore the possibility of a moral universe: because he has unleashed catastrophic violence and violation of Zeus' law -- manifest in the suitors' cynical use of Zeus' law to eat Penelope out of house and home -- he must violate Zeus' law one last time and then accept the penalty, which is exile.

This is a not only a movie that will make millions of people go read classical literature again. It also reinforces the idea that violation of the Golden Rule has disastrous consequences.

I dunno. I'd consider that, on balance, a large-scale win for civilizational values, when weighed against the woke casting of Elliot Page or the dumbass discussion over whether Lupita Nyongo is good-looking enough (she is, and for the record Diane Kruger is German, not Greek).

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

For everyone bitching about Nolan’s Odyssey - why haven’t you filmed a version of it, then?

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

@MiddleearthMixr Isn’t everybody in a movie pretending to be someone else?

[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

The fact that conservatives are attacking the most conservative cultural artefact produced in decades has to be one of the dumbest things I have ever witnessed. Its honestly dumber than anything the Wokes ever did.

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

@creation247 @davidrush You’re sure spending a lot of time talking about it!

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

@creation247 Normal people just ignore a movie they’re not interested in. It’s annoying when people trash any movie without seeing it, then it’s not even engaging wirh the movie just using it to push your own agendas. Normal men can watch a movie and disagree with it without moral panic.

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

@StefanMolyneux Homer’s poem was a psyop / propaganda in the first place, tho

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

@creation247 That’s not Helen, it’s Clytemnestra which you’d know if you’d seen the movie.

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

@AJA_Cortes Oh, ok

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

@WerwulfFan Water was blue in the film I saw

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

@creation247 How do you even know it sucks when you’re self-righteously claiming to never watch it?

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

@lichthauch Yet all those previous generations…they, too would have succumbed to the pull of the portable portal.

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

@IndieGameJoe This is not relaxing

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

@TheCinesthetic Task & Mare of Easttown

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

What are some other movies with morning routines?

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

@HolderOftheFire But behind them all - God

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

@mattvanswol In-N-Out should not be in Arizona

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

@horrormuseum Time will reveal it as the masterpiece it is

[The Archic Man @GradiusIii]

@_motherslug Who is number one?