Just watched Nolan’s #TheOdyssey . If you are planning to watch but dont know anything about the story, Here’s a 5-min Homework you can do so you are not lost..
Note: If you’ve seen the movie Troy (2004) or know the basic Trojan War story, you’re 80% there. Because this story picks up right after Troy falls.
Backstory:
Helen, considered one of the beautiful woman in the world, is married to a Spartan king named Menelaus. A Trojan prince named “Paris” comes and takes her away (Another version says she runs away with him)
Menelaus is furious, calls in every Greek king who owes him a favor, and one of those kings is Odysseus, ruler of a small island called Ithaca.
Odysseus doesn’t even want to go as he’s got a newborn son and a wife back home but he’s bound by an old oath, so he leaves anyway. That’s why he’s at war in the first place. Its not his war.
The war drags on for years until Odysseus, the smartest guy of all, comes up with the Trojan horse tactic and ends it in one night. Troy falls and the greeks start to sail back home
That’s where The Odyssey actually begins. The setbacks and events he faces on the way back is the story.
Now, the people you need to know:
i went from 21 to 27 and basically nothing changed bc the economy stopped so yeah i do feel mentally stuck sorry millenials 😭. sorry we don’t have obama era optimism like my 21st birthday was 2 months before they shut down everything. now i’m just venting
Zöe Kravitz reflects on aging and life changes:
“I think that I’m hyper-aware of the fact that I’m going to die one day. The other day, I was walking past this woman, she was very old and she was walking so slow. The fact that I can just walk up a flight of stairs with no problem is amazing. Someday I might not be able to.
[..]As women, so much of our value is about the way that we look. There is this complex relationship between being annoyed at the construction guys who are whistling at you. And I’ve talked to a lot of women about when that stops and what that feels like. There’s a version where it feels liberating and a version where you feel invisible. I really want to get to that place where I am happy with who I am without that.
[...] I really want to work on elevating or evolving my inner self.
If I spend all this time now mad that I don’t look the way I want to look, it’s like you’re wasting it. Whether you get Botox or not, you’re going to age. You’re going to look different in some way. If you don’t do the work internally to prepare yourself for the fact that life is going to happen to you, then that’s going to be the hardest part.”
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I think my biggest neurodivergent tell is that I'm visibly uncomfortable during small talk, yet totally at peace when someone starts oversharing the weirdest shit I've ever heard.
this is why people hit a certain age and start joining running clubs, training for marathons, taking a cooking course etc btw. we all just wanna feel alive!!!
Si el universo de Harry Potter fuera real, me hubiera fascinado nacer allí. Imaginar un lugar donde todos fuésemos magos/brujas, con habilidades mágicas y rodeados de criaturas asombrosas, me parece asombroso. Vivir en un mundo así, lleno de tanto encanto y misterio... Sí, deseo.