Also. Insane to make a whole thing of how the Greeks violated âZeusâs lawâ towards the Trojans with the horse trick, but never mention Paris by name. Yâknow. The guy who kicked off the war by violating xenia first?
He kidnapped his wifeâs host. He violated the sanctity of marriage. Menelaus and Helen welcomed Paris as they would any Greek guest, and in return this foreigner bedded (raped) and stole the warlord King of Spartaâs wife.
This isnât to say what the Greeks did to the Trojans was justified â on the contrary, both sides of the war, in life and in death, in the Iliad and Odyssey and extended body of spin-off works, lament that there was so much death and destruction on behalf of one woman.
But the war very much wasnât just about Helen â it was about her kidnapping, and what it represented.
How could the Greeks let such a violation of xenia, such a barbaric act that spurned their most valued customs, go unpunished? They couldnât. That was why the Trojan War happened. And you canât ignore that, especially not in a retelling of the Odyssey, which is all about xenia and hubris and what happens when men do things they should not.
How lovely it would be if Christopher Nolanâs take cared about or respected any of those themes.