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[Hugo Viegas @HugoViegas3]

@NolanAnalyst I was on the edge of my sit, it was heart racing!

[Hugo Viegas @HugoViegas3]

@manuelsbento Pois eu nem sei o que fazer. Estes filmes não deveriam estrear no mesmo dia.

[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).

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Saw the Odyssey last night.

The irony of the right wing backlash is that this is a deeply small-c conservative film. It's about the consequences of defying the gods, and how society crumbles when we violate sacred traditions.

It's such an own goal that the right hates it.

[Hugo Viegas @HugoViegas3]

@NolanAnalyst In standard imax too? Not just 70mm?

[Hugo Viegas @HugoViegas3]

@florapattinson Underrated by critics

[Hugo Viegas @HugoViegas3]

@florapattinson Underrated, Top 3 Nolan for me. Maybe the Odyssey will change that

[Hugo Viegas @HugoViegas3]

@florapattinson

[Hugo Viegas @HugoViegas3]

@TheoChron @CarlosC3941 @ChrisNolanNews Yes I did, but If you go by that judgement then most of the encounters are a footnote.

[Hugo Viegas @HugoViegas3]

@NolanAnalyst I wouldn’t mind knowing that, could you DM me please?

[Hugo Viegas @HugoViegas3]

@CarlosC3941 @ChrisNolanNews That's what worries me, it should be the climax of all the mythological encounters

[Hugo Viegas @HugoViegas3]

@NolanAnalyst The only thing I'll trash is these terrible costumes. Super excited for the movie though

[Hugo Viegas @HugoViegas3]

@felxbr The olive trees

[Hugo Viegas @HugoViegas3]

@florapattinson We’re so lucky to live in the time of Nolan and Villeneuve

[Hugo Viegas @HugoViegas3]

@LegacyProgramVP We all know Helen isn't black, and it's not because of this decision that people will start believing that.
I roll my eyes and move on, the same way I roll my eyes everytime I see Alec Guinness playing an Arabian prince in Lawrence of Arabia, and it's still a masterpiece.

[Hugo Viegas @HugoViegas3]

@LegacyProgramVP This is the most reasonable statement I've seen of this movie so far. I don't like some of the casting decisions in this either, but I still think it will be great. My love for sword and sandals genre and Nolan films in gerneral is above all of that. Just enjoy the art. (+)

[Hugo Viegas @HugoViegas3]

@florapattinson Yesss

[Hugo Viegas @HugoViegas3]

@florapattinson I'm not impressed. A bit disappointed even