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Hot take: The Trojan Horse wasn’t the greatest military strategy ever. It was proof the Greeks couldn’t beat Troy fairly after 10 years of war. If your only path to victory is hiding inside a wooden horse, were you really the better army?

[David not Goliath @David_Da_Boss]

One of the creepiest shots in #Obsession lasts only a few seconds, but it says so much without a single line of dialogue.

At first glance, Nikki dancing beside the car almost looks playful. But the longer you look at it, the more disturbing it becomes.

The movement doesn't feel human—it feels mechanical.

It's like watching a marionette whose strings are being pulled by someone else.

That image immediately reminded me of a puppet, and I don't think that's an accident. Whether intentional or not, it perfectly captures what the One Wish Willow has done to #Nikki. She's no longer moving because she chooses to. She's moving because the wish has taken control of her body while the real Nikki is trapped somewhere beneath the surface.

That's what makes the scene so unsettling.

She isn't dancing out of joy.

She isn't dancing because she's free.

She's performing.

Like a doll made to entertain its owner.

Throughout the film, WishNikki constantly behaves in exaggerated, theatrical ways—over-the-top affection, unnatural poses, sudden mood swings, bizarre movements. Looking at this scene through the "puppet" metaphor, it feels as though the curse is testing the limits of the body it's controlling, stretching and moving it however it wants without any regard for the person trapped inside.

What makes it even more tragic is that the real Nikki may still be conscious while all of this is happening. If that's true, then she's forced to experience her own body being manipulated like a puppet, unable to stop any of it.

It's a brilliant piece of visual storytelling.

No exposition.

No dialogue explaining what's happening.

Just one unsettling image that communicates everything: Nikki isn't living her own life anymore. She's become a marionette, and the One Wish Willow is the puppeteer pulling every string.

Whether this symbolism was intentional or simply an evocative visual choice is open to interpretation, but it fits remarkably well with the film's central themes of lost autonomy and forced control. The comparison between Nikki's dance and a marionette has also resonated with other viewers discussing the scene.

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Nah, I disagree. Calling the Trojan Horse the “greatest strategy” just romanticizes a desperate last resort. After a full decade of failing to take Troy the hard way, the Greeks had to resort to a gimmick that only worked because the Trojans were dumb enough to drag a giant wooden statue inside their walls.
Sun Tzu talked about deception, sure—but he also emphasized preparation, positioning, and not letting a war drag on for ten years. If your best move is “hide inside a horse and hope they open the gates,” you weren’t outsmarting anyone so much as admitting you couldn’t win a fair fight. That’s not genius. That’s the military equivalent of cheating on a test after studying for a decade a

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@warrior_yungjun You have to pick one 😂

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Which one of the Polyphemus is more good looking ? 🫠😂💨🔥

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@reportingLibya For real man

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if his crew did not hear anything becauseof the wax , then why did he tell them that no matter what he say they must not listen to him .how would they hear him???

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He got outta that contract and started telling his truth !!!! #Hotd

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@Mclipzs Brian Cox walking in like the entire city already belongs to him. That build up is pure cinema

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@Mike83427474 Well….

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Hot take: The Trojan Horse wasn’t the greatest military strategy ever. It was proof the Greeks couldn’t beat Troy fairly after 10 years of war. If your only path to victory is hiding inside a wooden horse, were you really the better army?

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SPIDER MAN BRAND NEW DAY IS PEAK 🥶🔥💨 #SpiderManBrandNewDay

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@CapitanoJacko Exactly. After 10 years of failing to take the walls, the Greeks finally win by leaving a giant wooden horse on the beach… and the Trojans just bring it inside.
That’s not a Greek masterstroke that’s a Trojan skill issue

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It’s about to be a brand new day 🕷️🕸️💨

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@Zorada1963 Right

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@reportingLibya You should see the movie

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In Homer’s Odyssey the Laestrygonians never come in peace, they’re giant cannibals who lure Odysseus’s men in and then smash the fleet. The boy may look harmless, but the danger is the same. Nolan just dressed the threat in armour instead of giant skin.

[Sulish🤍 @Sulish4d6]

Why did he call for war when they came peacefully?#TheOdyssey

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Humanizing a one eyed child-eating giant who just murdered a bunch of men is peak 2020s cinema brainrot.

The Cyclops is supposed to be a terrifying force of nature, not a sobbing man-child running to daddy Poseidon after getting poked in the eye

This “he’s just a kid” framing is soft as hell and completely misses the point of the myth.

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That scene genuinely had me locked in, the scream is what did it for me. It wasn't just a monster scream it was a scream so loud it shook you to the core and you could tell the cyclops was screaming out of pain and anguish not anger. Then right after seeing it balled up crying and begging Poseidon to avenge him reminds you that cyclops although a monster is also a child and ran to his father for help after getting hurt. Felt strangely human yet terrifying #theodyssey

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That scene genuinely had me locked in, the scream is what did it for me. It wasn't just a monster scream it was a scream so loud it shook you to the core and you could tell the cyclops was screaming out of pain and anguish not anger. Then right after seeing it balled up crying and begging Poseidon to avenge him reminds you that cyclops although a monster is also a child and ran to his father for help after getting hurt. Felt strangely human yet terrifying #theodyssey

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@Palli18 Absolutely right

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I still think Wolfgang Petersons movie TROY from 2004 hits harder than this 🎥

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Everyone debates whether Odysseus was justified in sleeping with other women during his journey.

Almost nobody asks whether Penelope was expected to suppress every human desire for 20 years.

Is that loyalty… or an impossible standard????????

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@devannoxtwt @DiscussingFilm Why ?

[David not Goliath @David_Da_Boss]

The best character in The Odyssey? Definitely goes to Circe. 🐷🐽

A witch living on the island of Aeaea, Circe is one of the most fascinating figures in the myth. When Odysseus (Matt Damon) and his crew stop there searching for food, Zeus's law is at work: hospitality had to be extended to any stranger, since a hungry visitor at the door could be a god in disguise. Circe obliges and feeds the soldiers, but the food is laced with a spell. She then turns every last one of them into pigs.

Odysseus figures out what happened and confronts her, demanding she undo it. Circe tells the men "back to your disguises" and restores them to human form. In Homer's poem, the two become lovers after she frees his crew, and Odysseus remains on the island for a full year. She gives him two sons.

So why does Circe matter so much to the film, beyond being one of its most unsettling sequences?

Her story flips Zeus's law around and shows the cost borne by those who open their doors. Consider Penelope, who hosted 300 suitors eating her out of house and home and terrorizing her son. She was forced to shelter behind a caged door because the men couldn't be trusted. Circe had no cage, so sorcery became her protection.

Circe's reach extends even further into the story through mythology that later Greeks grafted onto Homer's original. At one point, Odysseus's crew is forced into a nightmare choice between two terrors: the massive whirlpool Charybdis and a six-headed, twelve-legged sea monster named Scylla. Scylla was once a beautiful sea nymph, but Circe poisoned her and turned her into a monster out of jealousy, because Glaucus, god of the Sea, loved her.

The phrase "caught between Scylla and Charybdis" survives in the language to this day, meaning exactly the same thing as "between a rock and a hard place."

Circe is also the character who begins cracking open Odysseus's certainty about how the world sees him and his men. To her, they are a threat, literal pigs who arrive at her home to steal and rape. It won't be the last time he encounters this view. All along the coast, people fear "the people from the sea," and Odysseus eventually comes to understand that refers to him and his crew.

#theodyssey

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Nolan’s doing it again. An R rated, nearly 3hour Greek epic shot entirely on IMAX cameras is steamrolling to Oppenheimer’s domestic total in under two weeks. The legs, the premium format demand, the cultural pull pure theatrical dominance. Odysseus is coming home with the bag.

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Hot take 🔥

It took 595 days for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer to earn just over $330 million at the U.S. box office. The Odyssey is on track to beat that total in just 13 days😱