"It was all the things you wanted it to be, then, all the things you wished for.
It was the delicious itch you go to scratch, that lies under the skin you can't reach, so the itch becomes unbearable.
Told you what you most want is what you most can't have.and what you most can't have, is what you already had, and lost.
It was the song of all the promises I failed to keep. And it told me I don't really want to go home. "
I'm shedding tears thinking about it, man. The feeling if regret, and longing for what we once had and lost. Something we all can relate to.
#TheOdyssey is one of the greatest films ever made.
Incredible how great this line reading is. Said with a clownish disgust, as if he is performing for his enormously petty and conniving high school gang at lunch time. With that snide smile at the end, the voice raised. What a actor; he’s becoming a genius.
What I found most brilliant about this scene is that Nolan intentionally never let us hear the siren's song.
Because if the audience had heard it, they would've walked out of the theater and straight into the sea.
Do the ends justify the means? If you win the war and lose yourself, what did you gain?
Sir Christopher Johnathon James Nolan, to call you a genius I would be downplaying your greatness
“what if he knew, that very night, as he walked through fires, anarchy, and pain, and in a daze of sweaty celebrations that follow, what if he knew exactly what he'd done?”