Broken Spires at Dead Kapital

Fate, if it has any meaning, lies in the power of reversal. Eventually, the hunter will be felled by his own weapons and traps. For all its riches and might, Rome's destiny is to be consumed as Carthage was. Slaves will become their own masters, and the death march of civilisation will be forced into the triumph of life.

nolan's odyssey is like fennel's wuthering heights. it's a self indulgent bastardization where the original's only purpose is for easy name-recognition marketing. nolan's odyssey is nolan's incomplete, immature interpretation of the odyssey in the same way that fennel's wuthering heights is, by her own description, a manifestation of how reading the book at 14 years old made her feel. nolan's odyssey is a manifestation of how reading the odyssey made christopher nolan personally feel. it has no larger point to make or greater question to ask or idea to explore. it is just how christopher nolan feels about the odyssey as a middle aged british man. it has absolutely zero interest in the source material and its historical and cultural context the way fennel's wuthering heights has no interest in its source material. whether you find it novel or enjoyable will depend on how much you can resonate with a white millionaire man's shallow, elementary interpretation of a story he can barely grasp the meaning of because he cannot engage with it past it's immediate effect on his own limited identity and worldview, the same way wuthering heights was enjoyable if you were able to resonate with a white, old-money british woman's shallow, elementary interpretation of a story she could barely grasp the meaning of because she could not engage with it past its immediate effect on her being horny and wanting to fuck jacob elordi. both are effectively self insert fanfiction masquerading as adaptations because the aesthetic of historical dramas makes movies marginally more exciting, or they would if the costumes weren't terrible, when really both would have worked far better as truly just modern retellings, because that is what they fundamentally are, and the time periods in which they are set are not the cultural foundation of the story, but meaningless set dressing.

one of my favorite types of content is people who analyse low brow media with the same seriousness with which one generally uses to analyse artsy/prestige media. not cynicism, no mockery, no acting like they're above it, even if they think its bad. everything has themes even when not intended to be there, everything says something about the context in which it was made even if its not trying to, and sometimes the lack of depth betrays a different type of depth in what the media does not realize that its saying much more than the little that its saying on purpose. even if the craft is bad.

nolan's odyssey is like fennel's wuthering heights. it's a self indulgent bastardization where the original's only purpose is for easy name-recognition marketing. nolan's odyssey is nolan's incomplete, immature interpretation of the odyssey in the same way that fennel's wuthering heights is, by her own description, a manifestation of how reading the book at 14 years old made her feel. nolan's odyssey is a manifestation of how reading the odyssey made christopher nolan personally feel. it has no larger point to make or greater question to ask or idea to explore. it is just how christopher nolan feels about the odyssey as a middle aged british man. it has absolutely zero interest in the source material and its historical and cultural context the way fennel's wuthering heights has no interest in its source material. whether you find it novel or enjoyable will depend on how much you can resonate with a white millionaire man's shallow, elementary interpretation of a story he can barely grasp the meaning of because he cannot engage with it past it's immediate effect on his own limited identity and worldview, the same way wuthering heights was enjoyable if you were able to resonate with a white, old-money british woman's shallow, elementary interpretation of a story she could barely grasp the meaning of because she could not engage with it past its immediate effect on her being horny and wanting to fuck jacob elordi. both are effectively self insert fanfiction masquerading as adaptations because the aesthetic of historical dramas makes movies marginally more exciting, or they would if the costumes weren't terrible, when really both would have worked far better as truly just modern retellings, because that is what they fundamentally are, and the time periods in which they are set are not the cultural foundation of the story, but meaningless set dressing.

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Seeing masculinity as dangerous isn't progressive and can harm queer people. Masculinity, femininity, and androgyny are all morally neutral.