zero stars for nolan because odysseus, on his journey home to ithaca, was NOT visited by a ghost that tells him that once he reaches his home, once he slays all his enemies and sets his house in order he must do one last thing before he can rest. the ghost does NOT tell him to pick up an oar, walk inland, keep walking, until somebody mistakes that oar for a shovel. for that would be the place that no man has ever been troubled by the sea. and that's where he'd find peace.

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actually can't get over how terribly christopher nolan treated the black women in the odyssey

like. i don't think any of the women in the odyssey are treated well by nolan (penelope and circe in particular have their characters ruined to make odysseus seem smarter and more honourable) but there's something so nasty about casting a black woman as athena, goddess of wisdom, war, and handicraft, the character who arguably drives most of the post ogygia plot in the poem, and choosing to ignore all of that in favour of a mute hallucination of a girl who was raped and murdered whose only function in the film is to add to the guilt the white male lead feels over the atrocities he committed. or casting a dark skinned black woman as the most beautiful woman in the world, and then having her husband carve up her face to disfigure her as punishment for being so beautiful that she was kidnapped

those things don't happen in the poem either. it's all a choice by christopher nolan to do that

in case anyone was wondering. the odyssey was bad

also i stand by my original take that matt damon was abysmal casting

in case anyone was wondering. the odyssey was bad