the odyssey

james choice · 2026-07-08T09:45:02.034283-07:00

lupita nyong'o, one of the actors in the film, is asked in an interview what she'd want to say to homer. and she says: i'd ask, homer, you gave women almost no place at all in your book, but look, now in this film a bunch of women have screen time, what do you think? this one sentence drove the final nail into the film's coffin, so long and farewell. the woman is out here crying that "there aren't enough female characters heeere" about a book written 3000 years ago... is she an idiot or what. an even bigger version of the disgrace we lived through when rachel zegler shoved the snow white she played up the dog's ass is on the way. come on, nolan, you weren't the guy to sink into these kinds of embarrassments, damn it.

this is a film by a director who, in dunkirk, heroized the british army that had actually been humiliated during the evacuation; who, in tenet, told a story of the world being saved once again thanks to the intelligence agencies of western countries (the usa, of course) and villainized the russians; who, in a film he directed with a totally empathy-void mindset like oppenheimer, glorified that murderous monster called oppenheimer and ignored the japanese civilians; who, even in a film set in a fake universe like the dark knight rises, glorified the institutions that maintain order, meaning the usa, and made fools of batman fans even there with cheap, shallow political subtext; and who, in a sci-fi film like interstellar, pioneered the heroizing of the classic american rural male figure through the cliche cooper character playing baseball and sipping beer on his farm, and once again the "americans save the world" cliche.

let's put this on the record so people know just what kind of person is directing the film. how he'll do it this time is anyone's guess, but nolan is a man who, in this historical film too, will find some way to once again show he's a hollywood puppet. slaves to popular culture and nolan's diehard followers will of course ignore this and keep on defending him. for the sake of inception, memento, and the prestige, i don't want to trash his directing, but this is the reality. even though this guy is british, he's more american than an american. essentially he's become a hollywood puppet. that's exactly the situation. not even spielberg went this glaringly heavy-handed in his career...