and they VERY MUCH are! this is, imo, the furthest thing from an accident. oppenheimer and odyssey are very much in conversation with one another: "what if one decision by one man changed the course of history for worse?"
Christopher Nolan says Goya's painting of Saturn eating his son was a big inspiration for the Cyclops in ‘THE ODYSSEY’.
“[What] makes it the most frightening is that from the monster's POV, they're not a monster. We're irrelevant to them, and that's what's really scary.”
(Source: @KevinMcCarthyTV)