The best advice I heard from a stranger was this: give luck more opportunities to bump into you. Leave the house, take a different road, travel, say yes to new experiences. The more you do, the more life surprises you in the best ways.
A boy growing up under a woman is so dangerous to his manhood; no guidance or manly care, just tantrums, chaos, and drama.
So dangerous to himself, his wife, and his children in advance.
Under their care society will be messy.
Wild detail people miss, Nolan cuts almost every god from actually appearing. Zeus is just thunder. Poseidon is just storms. Athena, played by Zendaya, seems like the one exception showing up in visions, until the ending reveals she’s actually the ghost of a priestess Odysseus’s men murdered in Troy. The gods aren’t gods here, they’re guilt.
This is the detail that recontextualizes the whole film, Zendaya’s Athena isn’t really a goddess at all, she’s revealed to be a slain Trojan priestess haunting Odysseus’s conscience. Nolan basically turned divine intervention into trauma.
Elon Musk and the far right spent a year trying to kill the movie. It’s now on track to become the biggest Nolan success ever. Historic humiliation. Thanks for the promo.