I was just watching #Nagabandham and objectively, every frame looks 10 times better than the last 3 Prabhas films. Says a lot about filmmakers who just want to grab 1000 crores from the audiences instead of focusing on making a half decent film.
Eurylochus: “What was the song of the Sirens like?”
Odysseus: “All the things you wanted to be, and then all the things you wished you never wished for. It was a delicious itch you want to scratch, but you find it under the skin and can’t reach it. So the delicious itch becomes unbearable. It told you what you most want is what you most can’t have, and that the most you can’t have is what you already had and lost. It was a song of all the promises I failed to keep. And it told me I don’t really want to go home.”
This whole scene is actually INSANE
The Sirens aren’t just tempting Odysseus with some beautiful song.
They’re showing him
every person he wanted to become, every desire he regrets,
every promise he broke, and
everything he had before the war that he can never get back.
“I don’t really want to go home” hits differently. He spent all those years trying to return to Ithaca, but actually reaching home means facing his wife, his son, all his failures, and the fact that he isn’t the same man who left.
He doesn’t only miss home. He misses who he was when home still felt like home.
And the way Nolan presents it? Odysseus tied down, completely helpless, while the Sirens drag every buried feeling out of him.
No unnecessary explanation,
No forced dialogue
just one man admitting the truth he has been running from.
Absolutely goated writing from the GOAT himself 🐐
#TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Odysseus
I was drooling all over the floor when I saw this scene in the theatres. Incredible blocking and staging. Nobody moves the camera like Spielberg and Kaminski.