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My review of The Odyssey: I loved the historical realism (excepting the mythical creatures). You definitely felt the temple to Athena at Pylos might have looked like that. Metal was all bronze, not iron. The rhapsodes would pound sticks on the floor when declaiming a poem. I really appreciate attention to details like that. The movie also used the historical context of the poem itself as one of the themes. When Homer wrote The Odyssey, the age of the Trojan War (~1,000 BC) felt like a sort of golden age. Homer's time was a sort of Dark Age (~800 BC). Odysseus feels that he's played a part in this. There's a dark reference to the "Sea People" who might have been Phoenicians but it turns out the Greeks themselves behave like the very thing that they dread. Acting of course was brilliant. It was a long movie, but nothing felt unnecessary. Not appropriate for kids as there are very creepy parts (Circe, Cyclops). #theodyssey