The Odyssey - Grandeur reinterpretation of Homer
As everyone, I was crazy over "The Odyssey" since Nolan announced the film. Christopher Nolan's first literary adaptation takes on one of the most enduring works ever written. Homer's The Odyssey has been celebrated, debated, criticised, and reinterpreted for centuries, yet it continues to stand the test of time as one of the greatest works of Greek literature. So let me start pouring my thoughts about the film rather than indulging in Homer. Can there be a drama that is more dramatic than Oppenheimer from the master himself? I guess, yes. The film, right from the opening scene, wastes no time settling and goes to the Trojan horse with "A war,a man,a god" in the background with a song that praises "Odysseus" as a "Trojan war" hero. But is he really a hero ,as the songs claim, him to be? That is what the film is about. The film starts up from where Troy ('04) left us hanging with the start of the Trojan War. "The Odyssey...