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Brilliant, bad and a little mad. ✨

[Harnidh Kaur @harnidhish]

Some very scattered thoughts on The Odyssey. Also, caveat that I know much more about Homer than I know about films, so this is very much a literature person reacting to a movie. SPOILERS AHEAD (how can you spoil a 5000 year old poem…)

- I don’t really care whether it’s “faithful.” There is no single faithful Odyssey. Every translation is already an interpretation.
- The music score was just…unremarkable. I kept waiting for the music ro do something to me and it didnt. It was just loud.
- Matt Damon will win the Oscar for the siren scene
- I wish Hollywood let women be this complicated more often.
- Penelope is one of the best parts of Homer and I was glad the film understood that.
- Matt Damon completely surprised me. I wasn’t sold on the casting. I thought he was fantastic.
- The weariness of the film is intentional. By the time Odysseus gets home, you’re exhausted too.
- The modern language didn’t bother me at all. Stopped noticing after 10 mins.
- Circe is one of the biggest departures from Homer. Instead of simply being a witch, she’s a woman responding to violent men arriving at her home.
- The biggest change is replacing divine punishment with guilt. In Homer, Poseidon keeps Odysseus from getting home. Here, it feels like Odysseus can’t forgive himself.
- The “Sea Peoples” bit gutted me because suddenly Troy feels less like a glorious victory and more like a gross violation. Originally the sack of Troy was sanctioned by gods but here it’s the violation of Xenia (Zeus’s law) so uhhh.
- The near absence of the gods was fascinating. Because they’re talked about constantly and they’re almost never present.
- the Athena reveal scene fucked me uuuup.
- I think Nolan is using Homer to say something about modern war. PTSD, shame, veterans unable to truly come ‘home’, innocents and bystanders dealing with the consequence of war.
- Tom Holland’s Telemachus was perfect. He’s a boy raised without a father. This is his coming-of-age story too.
- Robert Pattinson is delicious. More films should let him play pathetic little men.
- I still have absolutely no idea what Nolan was doing with the Laestrygonians.

Overall:
Enjoyed. Dont go for faithfulness or education. Go to be awed.

[Jay @Jayy_Hardyy252]

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Queeb behaviour ✨

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