The journey of the hero is a canonical narrative structure present practically in every story, from ancient mythology to the episodes of a TV series. The protagonist faces a series of adventures and misadventures and returns to his point of origin. Odysseus/Ulysses in Odyssey is the journey of the hero par excellence, Christopher Nolan took the mythological account of these adventures transforming it into an action experience full of visually enveloping and engaging fantasy elements.
Odyssey is a film to see absolutely and definitely at the cinema. Almost three hours of movies in which the public is transported on the epic journey of this man to catches with difficult choices and unexpected adventures, while in parallel his wife Penelope and his son Telemaco wait for his return, leaving the city of Itaca in limbo without king. Odisseus (Matt Damon) and Telemaco (Tom Holland) are the two protagonists who face the transformational journey of their existence during the film. A hero who must deal with the consequences of his own choices, a son who must become a man and is waiting for a father who knows only in the stories of the aedists.
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Accompanied by endless criticisms for the choice of actors all very little Mediterranean, for historical references or armor, Odyssey of Nolan prepares to cash out over 200 million dollars in the world on the first weekend. Because of this, an American summer blockbuster designed to cash in, to bring the public to the room and refresh it for three hours, chewing 10 euro popcorn while Circe turns Odysseus soldiers into pigs (one of the most beautiful scenes of the whole film). If you forget this and watch the movie with the glasses of the European intellectual, then it is better to put in front of a fan and reopen the old book of Homer.
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey tries to remind Americans (and not only) how wrong it is to make a war for a pretext, how much destruction and pain provoke invasions and what are the serious consequences of a choice. The director and screenwriter continues his tale of extraordinary men who have to pay the consequences of their devastating genius. After Oppenheimer and the destructive bomb, Odysseus with his horse also caused the destruction of a people. Nolan chooses to eliminate all the divine component, transforming the journey of Odysseus in the attempt of the hero to expiate his guilt and overcome the pain.
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The film remains deeply an American blockbuster, but if behind the fantasy element it will be able to bring in someone the idea that imperialism, the overwhelm of the other, the desire for revenge are not so positive feelings and that what happens later is often worse than the situation in which it was before, the impact can only be positive. In a world where presidents attack and invade countries by apologising, causing harmful consequences on all the allies more or less involved by those commanders, using antiquity to speak to the present is always a good way to remember that welcoming is always better to exclude.
Odyssey is a film for images, sounds and metaphors. It is definitely not a film for actors, who are all a little too perfect to be suitable for the role and perhaps the best proof offers John Leguizamo as Eumeo. Matt Damon is a two-dimensional Odysseus even when he strives to go deep; Tom Holland is framed in the traits of the eternal child and has too clean air; Robert Pattinson is an overly hallucinated Antinous. On the female front you do not understand why Lupita Nyong’o is among the names on the poster when it is little more than an appearance; Charlize Theron seems to be out of a solar advertisement; Zendaya appears and Anne Hathaway has easy game to make the grieving wife. Substantially every candidacy for an award to the actors may arrive but it will be definitely excessive.
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