The Odyssey - Review
Odysseus: The Man * Spoiler warning*⚠️ I watched The Odyssey yesterday, and one thing that stayed with me after the movie was Odysseus himself. It seemed like every dialogue in the movie was connected with him. The politics, the war, even the training sessions of Telemachus. Mentor told him to strike when the enemy attacks and I think that is all that Odysseus has been doing. To me, he doesn't feel like the perfect hero that many people make him out to be. He feels... human. Very human. At the beginning, he is shown as someone with compassion. There is this quality in him where he even warns his prey before hunting. That tells us something about the kind of person he is. But then comes the Trojan War. After spending ten long years fighting, he comes up with the Trojan Horse plan. The same man who once had morals chooses a plan that completely goes against them. He doesn't just win the war—he destroys an entire city through deception. His will to win defeated his moral purpose....
