sorry im late i didn't want to come

I thought it was great and I’ve read the story 😭 tbf it’s been a long time since then (you can trash me for that if necessary)

However, my fears were correct about the movie. Christopher Nolan’s doesn’t necessarily adress the SA but it’s more implied. Easier to get if you’ve read the book, (spoiler : odysseus is a victim of SA).

I also feel like a lot of people aren’t aware the oddyssey has multiple antagonists, it’s more of Odysseus versus the world around him. But I wish characters like Calypso were more shown as scary, like this version of Calypso i wasn’t scared of at all. Circe is in the movie more terrifying but also really summed up.

The summed up bits of the movie, is its strength and its downside in my opinion. There is so much happening in the story, YOU HAVE TO SUMMARIZE IT. It’s genuinely impossible to make this a movie, without it summarized. But some things get lost with the summarization but that’s because it’s a double edged sword.

I still thought it was a great movie, I think Christopher Nolan and all of the actors working on the film did an amazing job. Matt Damon’s monologue about the Trojan horse towards the end of the film was my favorite, lowkey almost made me cry.

I also like how they depicted the gods (ik this is controversial) but I like that they didn’t actually show Zeus, Poseidon or Hades. They were just talking about them not as gods but more as rules to be upheld (Most constantly, Zeus’s law) whether the characters realized or not. Odysseus also often questions Zeus’s law, and that’s why Zeus doesn’t show up physically in my opinion. Why would the god he’s losing faith in, show up finally? After all this time? The only god we truly see is Athena because in my opinion, it’s Odysseus guilt and shame built up but also guiding him his way home. I think Athena is not only a character in the story but also a reminder to Odysseus. The only reason other people don’t see her is because it’s Odysseus own weight & journey. Or that simply, Athena doesn’t want to be seen by them.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.