John 🇺🇸
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Christopher Nolan says The Odyssey is ultimately about the idea that a society can only function through respect for strangers. He believes that, despite 3,000 years passing since Homer, that fundamental truth about human nature hasn’t changed.
Robert Pattinson is secretly based, he just can't admit it cause his co-workers are insane people
@AngryJoeShow Did you get paid along with the reviewers on rotten tomatoes to promote and hype this movie?
We owe these three an apology😭😭 (Their respective screen time in The Odyssey)
@YellowFlashGuy Now this explains a lot. Good for you. Now, to work on not being such a piece of shit to others online because of how unhappy you were with yourself.
Just got out of The Odyssey, and boy do I have thoughts. It’s going to take me some time to organize them. But here’s what I’ll say for now: Nolan has made some of my favorite films of all time, but his obsession with speaking in parable to contemporary issues still keeps him from grasping the mythological. It’s the most “supernatural” Nolan has ever been, but it still felt a bit like when the History Channel use to do series on Bible stories. There’s this anachronistic imposition of a modern worldview and values onto them that loses the deeper, original meaning. You can miss timeless by getting stuck on the contemporary. Then you get stuck with the illusion of solutions to your contemporary problems, but new problems emerge because you’re still stuck in @jgreenhall “Game A.” I will need to process more the message Nolan is trying to tell— and there’s a very obvious intent at a message in its clear deviations from Homer at crucial junctures. But Nolan really wants to say that civilization can be saved. He has an instinct that these retelling these old stories play a part. That’s good. But in my humble opinion, he still doesn’t understand what those stories mean—or, worse, he thinks he knows better.
