Western Civilization is

Western Civilization is Christopher Nolan actually spoke of this and then proved new adaptation of The Odyssey. Throughout the film, the characters are constantly talking about the mysterious sea peoples, who historically fit into the exact timeline of when the Trojan War takes place. The sea peoples are commonly associated with the causes, or at the very least one of the symptoms of the Bronze Age collapse, of the civilizational powers of the time were abruptly destroyed. The Hittite Empire, the Ugarit Kingdom, the Minoans, and, of course, the Mycenaeans and the Trojans, who are the two warring parties in Homer's epics. Now, interestingly enough, there is no mention of the and terrifying sea invaders throughout Homer's epic, incredibly central theme in Nolan's movie. To say, despite everything that made the film nearly unwatchable, may have actually saving grace. The beginning of when Telemachus, who is wearing fucking pants, by the way, his mother Penelope, they mention the looming threat of the peoples from the sea. And I thought, that's strange, seeing as the Mycenaeans themselves, Homer's Achaeans and Danaans, the listed populations among the historical, they were known to the Egyptians as the Ahiyawa and the Denyen, very much seen as a destructive force. The other seafaring raiders responsible for the very own civilizations. But of course, Homer, far separated, to mention that in his own epics. And this is actually very impressed with, because at the end of the film, when Odysseus in disguise is telling Penelope of his journey from Troy and the war itself, was brought about, and civilizational consequences of it all, are we the peoples of the sea? And Odysseus says, they are. They all are. When they sacked Troy, they had effectively broken the law which in the movie they turn of universal golden about being accepting and generous to, but this notion of Xenia is real in Homer's epic. Zeus is indeed the patron protector of travellers, and like Odin, you greet guests and strangers with kindness and respect, because it may himself in disguise. When the Greeks tricked the Trojans into accepting an offering into their home so they could destroy them from the inside. This was symbolic of the death of the greater from the inside out. The spirit and then the body falls apart later. And lastly, Nolan changed the prophecy made by blind Tyreseus, where in the poem he originally tells Odysseus that in Ithaca and reclaims his throne from the suitors. An oar and travel inland a people so far from the sea that they mistake winnowing fan because they have never seen an oar. And then he makes a sacrificial offering to Poseidon and then he gets to enjoy a long life, his king, live happily ever after. In Nolan's film, this is changed. Tiresius tells Odysseus that he must leave Ithaca at once and sail west of the known world and make a memorial for the fallen warriors at Troy. In the original poem, written in between the Bronze Age collapse and the rebuilding of classical Greek civilization, Odysseus remains in Ithaca because Homer trusts that civilization can be rebuilt, be right. But in Nolan's film, Odysseus fucking leaves. He abandons the cause altogether, just like modern man. Because it's modern audience. That this is a sort of modernization of not only our zoomed out hindsight of the barbaric sea peoples and their later Bronze Age collapse, but also the modern age collapse that we are experiencing in real time. Example could you give of the spiritual decline of modern Western civilization than by creating a multi million dollar Hollywood blockbuster film based on one of the oldest and most foundational Western canon and making it one of the most spiritually devoid and unenchanting works of modern media. Christopher Nolan is truly a metaphysician, and this was incredibly poetic.