Umer Khalil

Film nerd. Football fan. Writer. DevOps Engineer. Private: @Umer515Priv

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Backrooms has David Lynch influence written all over it. What a great picture.

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@messiornone end of an era

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glad they didn't

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can Argentina shit-house their way to another world cup?

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Spain deserved World Cup Champions

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take a shot every time Peter Drury says Lamal instead of Yamal

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@ebrahimisback yup. Spain deserve the win.

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can Argentina shit-house their way to another world cup?

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@FCFlickBall when you watching?

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I'm going to be honest. I've seen Troy twice and I've always been incredibly bored. this is also maybe my least favourite Brad Pitt performance.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

The greatest warrior who ever lived was told, after his death, that he should be happy.

His answer is one of the most devastating things ever written...

Achilles had been given a choice while alive: a long, quiet, forgotten life at home, or a short one at Troy that would make his name immortal. He chose glory. He chose to die young and be remembered forever.

In the Odyssey, Odysseus goes down into the land of the dead, and Achilles comes to meet him. Odysseus tries to comfort him. He tells him he has nothing to mourn:

"For of old, when thou wast alive, we Argives honored thee even as the gods, and now that thou art here, thou rulest mightily among the dead. Wherefore grieve not at all that thou art dead, Achilles."

You are the most blessed man who ever lived, he says. You were worshipped in life, and now you are a king among the dead. What is there to grieve?

Achilles answers immediately:

"Nay, seek not to speak soothingly to me of death, glorious Odysseus. I should choose, so I might live on earth, to serve as the hireling of another, of some portionless man whose livelihood was but small, rather than to be lord over all the dead that have perished."

He would rather be a day labourer, working someone else's field, for a master so poor he can barely feed him. He would take that life over ruling every soul that ever died...

Achilles chose to die young so that his name would live forever. And then, in the Odyssey, Homer let him speak from the other side of that choice. And this is his answer, to Odysseus and to us: being remembered is not the same as being alive. And the ordinary day you are living right now is the thing the greatest hero in the world would trade eternity to have back.

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@rohanbasur1702 oh yes for sure. he's very good at what he does and I definitely think he has range and can play different roles. he just hasn't been cast in a role like that in a great movie.

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tom Holland is being typecasted as the young coming of age hero in pretty much every movie. he's great at it though and I do think he has the range to play different characters.

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it was perfect. not a single minute more was needed. every scene had purpose and moved the story forward. you know it's a good film when you end up wanting more.

[MikeTX @miketx95]

is it just me, or should Agamemnon have had a bigger role? #TheOdyssey

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@FCFlickBall totally agree but his performance elevates the character for me.

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@SheikhFCB he has a lot of great performances but if I had to choose a few I'd go for seven, 12 monkeys and burn after reading. all of these are completely different characters. that's how versatile he is.

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@FCFlickBall that's literally the only genuinely great scene in the film lol. apart from that I really like Brian Cox as agammemnon

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world cup favourites 4-0 down in the first half against England's B team in a third place match. fucking hell. what a fall from grace. from being everyone's favourites to win the world cup to playing like Sunderland

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@Taldini_ when the dog wags his tail in excitement for the very last time after meeting Odysseus and that in turn revealing to Telemachus that that's his father. sublime moment. perfectly set up.

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There is a wonderful moment with a dog towards the end of the Odyssey that made me cry like a baby and made me wanna rush home and hug my dog

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@Taldini_ ikr

[zain @zainm67]

the sheer odysseyty of some people

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@ebrahimisback such a neat way to bring everything together.

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it was peak

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Watching Peak tomorrow at 4 pm