downplaying all the violent raiding / pillaging of villages odysseus and his men do on the journey leads to a situation where (at least to the wider audience) circe appears as paranoid/calculating instead of, you know, being actually traumatized and afraid of/hateful towards men for a reason…. and linked to this, there was a chance to tie that scene to the deeply gendered horrors of war in general, e.g. in the battle scene when troy falls, but that would require good writing, so idk why I expected that from nolan

















