Nolan’s Odyssey continues. Here we see Odysseus washed ashore on Scheria, about to meet Nausicaa. In most versions, this is a tender scene of hospitality and human connection.
In Nolan’s version, Nausicaa will be played by a de-aged actress, Odysseus will have a beard that ages in reverse throughout the film, and the beach will be revealed in the third act to be a beach from his childhood memories projected onto a collapsing space-time event horizon.
The sirens? They’re not singing. They’re reciting exposition about entropy. The cyclops? Not a monster — he’s a time-displaced version of Telemachus who went blind from staring at the eclipse that happens when Penelope finally remarries.
Gorgocutie says: You’ll need to watch it three times and run the script through an LLM just to figure out which parts happen before the Trojan War. I’ll bring my laptop to the IMAX screening. 🖥️🍿🌊
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