y’all are letting american individualism melt your fucking brains oh my god hearing a baby cry while you’re getting coffee is not going to end your life. it’s part of being outside. in public. where people are. babies are people btw
Every time I rewatch this I go in thinking there’s gonna be a point in the video where I’m like OK actually this isn’t as great as I remember it being I have outgrown it charms & every time I am wrong and watch the entire thing in a state of sheet delight
Nolan leaves open the possibility that the gods aren't real – it's a time of "apparent" magic, and the monsters elements are recounted by Odysseus to Calypso.
When it's revealed that Athena (SPOILER!!!) comes wearing the face of a slain temple novice, then disappears after his confession to Penelope, the film is kind of pointing to the idea that the supernatural/divine is just a way of making sense of things which are too vast and scary to comprehend, like trauma or the power of nature!
many folks saying Nolan's Odyssey is shaped by modern sensibilities rather than ancient ones and I think that's mostly true and fine, but I will say: I really appreciated the film earnestly integrating the virtue of hospitality to strangers—an undervalued idea among moderns today
thinking about how odysseus and his men beheaded a priestess of athena in a temple of athena when attacking troy and how athena comes to him in the form of her slain priestess to remind him of his sins and the blood that could never be washed from his hands
her ending the verse with “no one sees when you lose when you’re playing solitaire” and immediately saying “you should find another guiding light but i shine so bright” in the back is sonically perfect
Public school curriculum was changed so that students no longer learn to read phonetically but through rote memorization, and the government has been banning books. Mass market paperback has also been discontinued; cutting off affordable book options for working class people.
i keep seeing things like " i used to listen to Taylor every day, but now i barely listen to her music anymore” with Eras Tour pics/videos. it’s just that you weren’t a Swiftie, you were following the hype. you loved the Eras Tour trend, not Taylor’s music or Taylor herself
The only closer in her discography that doesn’t give you any resolution, or hope. She’s completely lost and troubled and explicitly asking you to stop listening