The best thing about Nolan’s “Odyssey” is that it says something new and interesting about themes of a story I’ve read at least four times in different translations and seen innumerable times in other adaptations: what kind of metaphysical crisis did the victory at Troy unleash?
It’s all over. World Cup over , Wimbledon over. Nothing to distract you but the terrifying reality of your own thoughts now. Never mind, it’ll be autumn soon where everything dies.
But yes Gordon also has the haunted look of a Medieval English peasant, but definitely not a knight as some have said. Maybe a blacksmith’s apprentice, or a small child who says ‘look it’s robin of loxley’, and then robin gives him his hat or something.