Some scenes are enough to make me rank a movie high with zero room for argument and for The Odyssey it’s Samantha Morton’s performance as Circe and the way she molds the men into pigs with her bare hands the way she get her hands dirty and handles them like clay and plunges her hands to bring their inside out as she transforms them because that is what she’s doing and the way she serves them up to their own captain for slaughter and the way she whispers “go back to your disguise” when she she turns them back into humans the way she gave Odysseus her prophecy the chill that went down my back with every word she spoke the way that scene made the movie into high art horror for me Samantha Morton deserves her flowers for this and Nolan captured Circe’s quiet rage perfectly
