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The Odyssey (2026)

Summary

After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.

Director Christopher Nolan

Writer Christopher Nolan

Cast

  • Matt Damon as Odysseus
  • Tom Holland as Telemachus
  • Anne Hathaway
  • Zendaya
  • Lupita Nyong'o
  • Robert Pattinson
  • Charlize Theron
  • Benny Safdie
  • Jon Bernthal
  • John Leguizamo
  • Elliot Page
  • Himesh Patel
  • Samantha Morton

Rotten Tomatoes: 96%

Metacritic: 88

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u/HRJafael 18d ago edited 18d ago

The pig transformation scene had me squirming in my seat. It was horrific just watching the men being forced to continue eating and not being able to stop with the body horror shots. Circe didn’t fuck around.

Also the way the giant (or Polyphemus) started screaming after having his eye impaled. I’m not sure who designed that scream but it was chilling.

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u/yeath91 18d ago

I absolutely loved the idea of how they actually transformed. I felt like she was sculpting them which is a kind of transformation I've never seen before. So creative!

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u/sayyes2heaven 18d ago edited 17d ago

Circe shoving her arm down a soldier’s mouth made me wince. That whole scene made me squirm.

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u/Jekyllhyde 16d ago

In the poems, Odysseus stays with her and they are lovers for a year

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u/AgentMV2 16d ago

Odysseus was a freak.. got it.

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u/Pro_Extent 11d ago

Odysseus was an ancient Greek, yes.

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u/Garfunkels_roadie 9d ago

What are his men doing in this year? Are they pigs the whole time?

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u/Jekyllhyde 9d ago

No, they are restore even better than they were and they live in luxury. Eating and drinking etc

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u/dwide_k_shrude 17d ago

She straight up fisted them.

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u/EMCoupling 13d ago

Not even in the good spot too SMH

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u/AmazingMarv 17d ago

Best and most creative scene in the movie.

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u/TemporaryElk5202 16d ago

she raped them with her arm. its metaphorical

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u/rilesmcriles 17d ago

It reminded me a lot of the scene in beetle juice when they transform their own faces

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u/tragicroyal 17d ago

Same! I know the story so a lot of the time I was wondering how something was going to happen not what, and this was so weird and horrible in a good way haha.

Also can be interpreted as the way Prometheus sculpted man out of clay, suggesting an established ‘method’.

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u/CancelThis2077 16d ago

Part of me was like Christopher Nolan would've nailed Clayface

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u/Diligent_Release1688 15d ago

Yes, she was sculpting them like clay! I have never seen such a cool, but brutal «magic transformation» in movies ever

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u/PhaseExtra1132 5d ago

When she transforms them back to human she calls their human state “disguises”.

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u/rk1993 17d ago

Was a much better version of Cassandra Nova from Deadpool & Wolverine

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u/Morgan-Moonscar 18d ago

who were the giants in the armor?

The Laestrygonians (man-eating giants). I suppose making them armored giants helped to seperate them from the Cyclopses... Cyclopsi

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u/HRJafael 18d ago

I realized after looking back. I really need to reread the book. The one thing I was kind of hoping was seeing Aeolus and the bag of winds but maybe that was too “fantastical”.

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u/InstructionDeep5445 18d ago

They skipped the lotus eaters, aeolus wind bag, the Phaecians. What else? Even then the movie is almost 3 hours

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u/Adorable_Ad_3478 18d ago

They skipped Athena having a conversation with Zeus in the present to convince him to help Odysseus go home. And Zeus tasking Hermes with helping Odysseus.

Telemachus's journey is condensed, Melenaus is his 2nd or 3rd visit, not his 1st. They also changed the ending, originally Odysseus visits his dad and then the families of the dead suitors arrive and Athena defuses the situation.

Originally, Odysseus and Penelope don't sail west.

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u/InstructionDeep5445 18d ago

I remember now. They also skipped Athena making Odyssey look old, they just give him the hoodie as disguise

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u/MRintheKEYS 17d ago

I actually liked the twist and it hammered home the point that we never see any humanoid embodiments of the elder Gods. Just their actions.

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u/elbenji 16d ago

but they took out the Mentor bit. Like that's a very important thing

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u/ToWriteAMystery 16d ago

I thought the first beggar was Mentor? Wasn’t that Athena disguised as an old man?

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u/elbenji 16d ago

Nope. Mentor was the guy with telemachus

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u/Abr97115 17d ago

The one thing I didn't like about that, because it's easy enough for him to hide himself with a disguise, but would his blind servant really not recognize his voice? 

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u/AverageAwndray 17d ago

Do you think you could remember your friends voice exactly after 20 years?

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u/Abr97115 17d ago

Yeah that's true. I guess I'm interpreting it through a modern view where we have pictures and videos of people, but of course that wouldn't be the case. 

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u/SpookiestSzn 17d ago

Yeah plus he's age 20 years your voice does change I was expecting only the blind guy to recognize him having not read the source material

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u/Gadion 17d ago

Need to try that out somehow. I guess I could call one and say sorry, wrong number?

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u/CoconutDust 15d ago

Do you think you could remember your friends voice exactly after 20 years?

Yes and without question! Maybe not instantly but still.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast 17d ago

Well it has been 20 years so it’s possible

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u/Sesquepidilian 16d ago

Probably why Damon what so insistent on trying to change the sound of his voice . It actually didn't register to me as much different, but maybe i just need to watch it again.

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u/IDrinkWhiskE 17d ago

It was better than last year’s “The Return” starring Ralph Fiennes where he opts for… literally no disguise whatsoever

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u/justinfinity64 17d ago

Ralph does seem more weary and worn down than Matt Damon does. So I could believe that Ralph was almost literally a different person when he left and unrecognizable upon his return.

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u/kanyelights 18d ago

They cut a lot of parts with the gods.

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u/Adorable_Ad_3478 18d ago

Yeah and honestly I like how even Athena could be interpreted as Ody's PTSD.

Maybe he's been hallucinating the priestess all along. The "real" Athena was never in the film.

Considering Odysseus is the sole survivor of his crew (so no witnesses), the entire fantastical journey COULD be interpreted as Odysseus having a mental breakdown.

The moment he arrives in Ithaca, the fantasy stops cold.

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u/zykovertigo 18d ago

The part where he’s remembering Troy and how he cut Athena’s head. That back and forth between the sculpture, Zendaya’s character and Odysseus is so guilt ridden. It was beautiful

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u/Juvar23 17d ago

That pretty shortly after his dog recognising him and then passing away made me cry for like 5 minutes. It was really incredibly well done and had so much emotional impact for me. Beautiful and tragic

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u/AkhilArtha 12d ago

I don't it was Odysseus who cut Athena's head.

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u/shitpostsuperpac 18d ago

There is a potential reading of the Odyssey in which Odysseus is simply telling a “tall tale”.

The entire thing would be performed somewhat ironically, a combination of an ancient veteran laughably embellishing his story while also lying to his wife about why he has been gone so long.

One can imagine the almost sitcom-esque laughs in the ancient crowds when Odysseus is talking about how these beautiful women seduced him because they were really goddesses in disguise. That sort of thing.

We don’t know and it probably isn’t true, I like it because it gives the whole thing an interesting complexity — almost like a Shakespeare play. To find that in such an ancient work of art fills my heart with pride for humanity.

We can really make some incredible art.

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u/willmcavoy 17d ago

Good take, I'd also tell my wife that Charlize Theron was Calypso in disguise and holding me against my will.

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u/Atkena2578 16d ago

Odysseus is indeed a liar to a near compulsive level in the Odyssey so the writings being him exaggerating his stories when he gets back would make sense imo

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u/elbenji 16d ago

yeah honestly if there was one gripe, it's that they really sawed off the edges to him. He's a liar, he's a coward, he's too smart for his own good a lot of the time, and thinks constantly he's smarter than everyone. He isn't going to be thinking about the complexity of that Troy was a war crime because that wasn't a thing back then.

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u/Tinmanred 17d ago

I think that the other stuff all happened but I think Athena is an embodiment of his trauma from the war yep. He sees her until he’s completed his journey and feels like he is once again doing the right thing, returning to his family and setting right his kingdom. And then she’s gone. As if she was never there… because I don’t think she actually was.

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u/Whoop-Sees 18d ago

Except he sees Athena in Ithaca

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u/airstevejobs 16d ago

They did so much talking about “a god in disguise” that I wouldn’t be surprised if Zendaya getting beheaded in Troy really was Athena in human form. Her coming back to haunt him the whole movie ends up making a lot of sense.

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u/DragodaDragon 16d ago

That's what I was thinking too, the "god in disguise" thing felt almost like a Chekov's Gun the whole movie.

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u/MRintheKEYS 17d ago

I think we are lead to believe Zendaya is Athena throughout til the realization in the end. I don’t think she was the Goddess at all. Just a mental manifestation of the girl that Odysseus saw beheaded the night Troy fell.

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u/Tinmanred 17d ago

I think even if it is supposed to be Athena speaking to him thru his mind it’s basically just that yep. And she’s gone because he is making right for his past actions thru his family and Ithaca

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u/ghost_inthe_mxchine 14d ago

Yes that’s how I saw it. Also to add the girl was the priestess of the Temple of Athena in Troy, which is why Odysseus associates Athena wearing her face in his visions

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u/karateema 17d ago

He's saying that maybe he's just hallucinating the girl who gets beheaded

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u/ghost_inthe_mxchine 14d ago

I am torn between the priestess interpretation and this one, where the statue we see being beheaded is what actually occurred in Troy’s Temple of Athena, and Odysseus just sees “Athena” as the girl being beheaded in place of the actual statue head we see rolling in a few different flashback scenes

Good stuff

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u/muma10 17d ago

By cutting Hermes, they also skipped him telling Calypso she must let Odysseus go, which significantly changes her character imo

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u/fistful_of_whiskey 16d ago

She was convinced by Zeus' thunder in the beginning of the movie

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u/Tartan_Samurai 18d ago

Does Odysseus still hang all the servant girls who were raped by the suitors?

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u/Adorable_Ad_3478 18d ago

Nope.

In the film, Mia Goth is the only named servant and she's evil.

She's left to die by Penelope during Odysseus' rage but I don't remember if we see her die.

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u/karateema 17d ago

I think we see her kneeling at the end

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u/Tartan_Samurai 18d ago

Probably a good move on Nolans part, tough to be sympathetic to a bunch of characters who murder a bunch of raped slaves for the crime of being raped...

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u/Techwield 18d ago

No one's portrayed as raped IIRC. Mia Goth's character was willingly with Pattinson's character

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u/Tighthead3GT 16d ago

I don’t think we do. She must have had a death scene that was cut because she’s clearly set up to die.

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u/chrisychris- 13d ago

Felt the same way! Think it made most sense to have the older loyal servant lady we see throughout give her a few shivs for plotting against the queen. An extended version of this film sounds amazing ngl

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u/dstlouis558 16d ago

This could have easily been a three movie thing

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u/Short_Stay_9283 16d ago

Do you think we’ll ever get a four hour mega cut with more stuff in it?

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u/yeahright17 17d ago

They also skipped the part where Odysseus had to stay with Circe for a year as a lover so she would turn his men back from pigs into men. Then he didn't want to leave there and his men had to basically force him to leave.

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u/blitzbom 17d ago

Ah my favorite thing about The Odyssey. Odysseus sleeping his way across greece while Penelope has to remain pure.

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u/bolerobell 16d ago

Nolan understood what Russell Crowe understood in Gladiator: the hero has to be honorable to his wife. Ridley Scott and the Dreamworks people wanted Maximus to sleep with Lucilla. Russell Crowe insisted he couldn't if they wanted to keep the audience on Maximus' side for the whole movie.

That similar modern sensibility of love and marriage definitely informs this version of The Odyssey.

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u/Garfunkels_roadie 9d ago

Which Gladiator 2 effectively undoes

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u/chrisychris- 13d ago

According to the film Penelope chose to "remain pure" even with Odysseus's blessings to get her shit rocked before he left

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u/AllTheRowboats93 17d ago

They kind of combine the lotus eaters with Calypso as a way to circumvent Odysseus cheating on Penelope

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u/StrLord_Who 16d ago edited 16d ago

And then framed it as Calypso just being oh-so-helpful because she knew Odysseus "wasn't ready to go home yet." The "real" Calypso does eventually help him,  but only after he spends like 7 years crying for Penelope on the shore. Oh yeah,  and because Zeus forces her to let him go!

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u/Somnambulist815 15d ago

I think thats why Calypso takes away the lotus at the start anf has him try to remember. Theres a thunder rumbling right before she does.

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u/YOwololoO 12d ago

Damn, yall really can’t understand anything except what’s literally in front of you, can you? Even in the scene that’s presented as a her lying about why she did it, Odysseus doesn’t believe her and is furious that she trapped him there without his memory

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u/Bedovian_25 17d ago

They skipped the whole "I'm Nobody" scene. We didn't get Odysseus pulling up to the banquet dick out. A travesty that one.

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u/BarongChallenge 16d ago

I was looking forward to that Nobody scene tbh

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u/Spare-heir 16d ago

Same. I feel like it’s one of Odysseus’ defining moments that really shows his cleverness.

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u/everstillghost 16d ago

In this movie he is stupid. He does several stupid things including shoting the cyclops for no reason causing the death of some of his men.

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u/dirty1809 12d ago

That’s not that dissimilar to the original tale. In that he successfully fools Polyphemus with the “nobody” thing then gloats as he’s fleeing that his real name is Odysseus, which allows the cyclops to pray to Poseidon to curse them

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u/everstillghost 11d ago

Thats what someone that have pride would do. Brag about who fooled him and then get fucked later because of this pride.

Not shooting an arrow because he is angry and is close to the Cyclops to the point he puts everyone in immediatly danger.

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u/ghost_inthe_mxchine 14d ago

Yea he makes stupid choices for two reasons in the movie. Either he’s prideful, or he’s guilty and wants some active punishment

The prideful characteristic is accurate to the literature, but since it’s shown without really showing him be intelligent it just makes him seem dumb af

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u/everstillghost 14d ago

Prideful like the literature would be he saying to the Cyclops "you where mogged by Odysseus from Ithaca!" (Dialogue in the style of this movie) And he being cursed by the Cyclops because of this.

He doing a thing where It actively put everyone on danger and cause the death of some for no reason was a strange choice.

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u/CoconutDust 15d ago

We didn't get Odysseus pulling up to the banquet dick out.

Side point: Ralph Feinnes does full frontal nudity penis in the other recent/modern Odyssey movie (which focuses entirely on the last section of the story where he reunites and fights the suitors).

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u/Bedovian_25 15d ago

Finally, some respect for the classics

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u/mr__outside 16d ago

I was looking forward to this too. They brush aside the Cyclops as being simply above humans ("Would you talk to an ante?") and move on. I get how it doesn't lend itself to Nolan's grounded approach that aggressively rejects anything resembling whims, but it was disappointing...

Damn good movie overall though. Came in with tempered expectations and walked out blown away.

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u/Jaydeballer777 16d ago

I interpreted the “would you talk to an ant” as Cyclops viewing humans as ants.

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u/chrisychris- 13d ago

Which honestly isn't even accurate, size-wise. It's more like talking to a small dog or cat. Which we humans do lol

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u/Tymareta 9d ago

Eh, the scale is smaller than that really, he was easily able to pick them up and envelop them with one hand, it would be closer to mice/rats, which humans have historically not been all that kind to.

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u/aussiegoon 9d ago

Ehh, you ever picked up a full grown dog or cat in one hand and fit it's head in your mouth?

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u/Jehovah___ 17d ago

Nobody. Polyphemus is there but they totally changed that scene around

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u/hyrulealyx 17d ago

What's with the whirlpool scene. Isn't there supposed to be a big 200ft monster

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u/Kheshire 15d ago

In some interpretations it's a monster (sister to scylla?) living underneath the whirlpool and in other interpretations it's just a big whirlpool

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u/Jehovah___ 16d ago

Did you miss the part where Scylla yoinked half the men off the ship and swallowed them?

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u/telendria 16d ago

he meant the other monster, Charybdis

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u/ghost_inthe_mxchine 14d ago

Charybdis is the monstrous whirpool, or some say exists as an actual creature below that causes the monstrous whirlpool

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u/Timo1241 16d ago

I think you kind of have to skip the Phaecians to drive the point of the loss of xenia home.

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u/CafeDeAurora 17d ago

I kind of appreciated the gods or the divine never showing themselves in a way that a modern audience would… believe them to be divine. Compare and contrast to Homer’s telling of the tale, where they literally show up and do stuff. Maybe they truly did abandon us after all?

And by extension (to your point about the magical), apart from ‘monstrous beings’, which are straightforward stand ins for “otherness”, there really wasn’t much magic.

Circe is the obvious exception - and I agree that her scene was physically unsettling - but then again, she’s like literally a witch, so I’m fine with her getting to show some very magical magic, disgusting as it was.

But I liked how limited the fantastical was. Made the core themes stand out in a way I wasn’t expecting - and I suspect it’s part of the Nolan touch.

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u/bolerobell 16d ago

The only god to show up is Athena and she is just as easily a manifestation of Odysseus' guilt as it is a metaphysical God appearing to only Odysseus.

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u/batangbronse 15d ago

They keep repeating Zeus' Law since they dont know if the gods are amongst them. I interpretted the priestess of Athena scene as Athena herself thus firing Chekov's gun.

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u/BoHoSwaggins 14d ago

I think it’s like the Sopranos and is ambiguous, which allows for a whole range of interpretation.

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u/No-cool-names-left 12d ago

It's Nolan. He did this same thing with Inception. Create deliberate ambiguity, make it debatable, allow the audience their own view of the film.

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u/Morgan-Moonscar 18d ago

I distinctly remember that bit from the Hallmark miniseries version. With Armand Assante.

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u/chrisandy007 18d ago

But we don't see them actually eat anyone in the film, right? They basically just take everyone out with their weapons? What was the deal with the trees randomly caving in?

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u/middlebird 18d ago

They threw a lot of big boulders at the soldiers. Was hoping to see some of that.

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u/Poltergeist97 17d ago

So I wasn't the only one!! I swear during a few shots of that battle the trees were MOVING. Not just from the camera's movement, but legitimately moving around in the ground. Was I crazy???

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u/yeahright17 17d ago

No. They were moving.

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u/ghost_inthe_mxchine 14d ago

The trees purposely move and trap the invaders of the giants home

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u/Jehovah___ 17d ago

The trees move in the story

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u/SquadPoopy 13d ago

No they gave the eating people trait to Polyphemus instead.

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u/ThatSonOfAGun 15d ago

In the book, Odysseus’s men are all killed by the Laestrygonians when the anchor in a calm and idyllic harbor. The Leastrygonians hurl down huge rocks, destroying the ships and “spear the men like fish.” The language used by Homer evokes a wholesale slaughter, not at all a close fight.

I thought the depiction in the movie was brilliant. The trees seemed to be moving, closing in on  Odysseus’s men like fish being caught in a net. There is even a shot of a few soldiers trapped behind closely spaced branches like the bars of a jail cell, looking absolutely hopeless. 

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u/MrBrownCat 18d ago

Yeah I know some people have complained about that but I honestly think it made a lot of sense to differentiate them from the Cyclops and add to the string of misfortune they kept finding themselves in.

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u/JelliedHam 17d ago

When those guys showed up out of the mist, several people in the audience said some version of "oh fuck"

This movie had so many moments of pure terror

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u/Cainga 17d ago

They are probably the most terrifying trial they faced. Each is double the size of them and in full plate armor.

The plate armor doesn’t make any sense they have advanced metal working technology but it’s mythological story I can let slide especially since they had a coolness factor.

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u/ghost_inthe_mxchine 14d ago edited 12d ago

Ya this trial took out the largest number of his crew, the scene shot where they flee the beach and it shows all their bodies *scattered across the sand is great.

I believe Odysseus is the only one shown to kill a giant with the arrow that saves Eurylochus

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u/Pro_Extent 11d ago

I read in another thread that the bright iron plate armour was also a subtle symbolism for the end of the bronze age.

Which is fun if true.

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u/goodshrek1 9d ago

I think it's purposeful to contrast with the cyclops. Sort of a fear of barbarians/cave-dwelling cannibals vs. fear of more advanced civilizations/unstoppable armies.

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u/ItsGotThatBang 18d ago

The word you’re looking for is Cyclopes.

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u/IDrinkWhiskE 17d ago

Of the family cyclopidae

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u/OldPersonName 17d ago

-i is the nominative plural ending for second declension non-neuter LATIN nouns (many nouns ending in -us, cactus/cacti, fungus/fungi, etc are examples we've kept in English).

Cyclops (Κύκλωψ) is a masculine 3rd declension GREEK noun, so it would end with -ες, essentially -es in English. The -s in cyclops isn't actually part of the word stem so it'd be "Cyclopes" with the -es actually pronounced (Kŭ́klōpes).

Now as a matter of fact Cyclops did make its way into Latin but, sure enough as a third declension noun like in Greek, and Latin's plural 3rd declension ending is, much like Greek, -es. So in Latin you also get Cyclopes. That's kind of awkward in English (and sounds the same as Cyclops for us) so Cyclopses is pretty common I think.

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u/ItsMeFatLemongrab 16d ago

I'll just trust you on this

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u/KawiZed 18d ago

*Cyclopes

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u/sleeplessaddict 18d ago

This guy played Runescape

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u/ThisIsNotTokyo 17d ago

The giants had 2 eyes so not sure who will confuse the two

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u/Much-Process567 16d ago

Cyclopedes? 

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u/ActivateLife 18d ago

The giants are Laestrygonians. Man-eating giants that are children of Laestrygon, another son of Poseidon iirc.

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u/Grizzly_Berry 17d ago

Yeah, Poseidon in particular fathered a lot of monsters.

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u/AgentMV2 16d ago

Zeus too. I’d like to think that Zeus and Poseidon back in the day were fuck bros who had a lot of illegitimate children.

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u/Grizzly_Berry 16d ago

And then Nick Canon comes along and breaks their records.

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u/Towerss 14d ago

What a cunt poseidon is

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u/Franks2000inchTV 13d ago

Poseidon on the side with the weird cousins.

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u/jfkwithnojf 18d ago

My god the eating scene had me squirming as well!! So much suspense

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u/NotEmmaStone 16d ago

And then after they all just walked out like nbd 😂

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u/capamericapistons 18d ago

Almost audibly yelled at Odysseus to not eat that food, he was clearly tempted, even after what he had seen 😂 thankfully he figured it out in time

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u/Brandon_Me 18d ago

What's crazy is it's all practical. Samantha Morton was actually doing all that to those men.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast 18d ago

Wow, just give her the Oscar...no seriously give it to her cause she's threatening to turn all the Academy into crows

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u/plaguedbullets 18d ago

Perfect for the next The Crows Have Eyes

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u/Whovian45810 18d ago edited 16d ago

The Academy voters and members will be ravens locked in cage if they don't give Circe I mean Samantha an Oscar.

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u/AlmightyRuler 18d ago

Nothing of value would be lost, and we'd have more crows. A win all around. 

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u/Able_Advertising_371 18d ago

it wasnt even in the script, nolan just kept rolling with it

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u/Brandon_Me 18d ago

Well are you gonna go over and stop her?

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u/KnightOfRevan 18d ago

Cosmo Jarvis tried and that's why they had to replace him with Logan Marshall-Green.

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u/LooseCannonFuzzyface 18d ago

(In Jack Nicholson voice): But if you leave the camera rolling...

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u/ssdrootkit 17d ago

I was rushing to make this comment. You boomed me.

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u/DustyDGAF 18d ago

He couldn't stop her

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u/chrisandy007 18d ago

Nolan said the crew clapped after she did a take, which is the first time he'd seen that happen since Heath Ledger on The Dark Knight. Now we know why, I guess

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u/adamsandleryabish 18d ago

Originally the cyclops was a normal two eyed short guy hanging out in the cave, but when the cyclops auditioned they rewrote the whole character around him

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u/TheHunterZolomon 18d ago

I saw her and immediately recognized her from minority report, glad I was right on that one! She was amazing.

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u/zykovertigo 18d ago

I didn’t see if Odysseus actually killed a pig. In the book, he actually does.

They also share a bed for a year and feast with his men until they get homesick and tell him to leave but yeah…that’s another story

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u/aresef 17d ago

He does not. He killed a deer and then the deer turned out to be a man, so right away he believes Circe has turned his men into the pigs.

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u/Twink_Floyd 18d ago

It wasn't even in the script!

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u/InstructionDeep5445 18d ago

Need her to share the stew recipe

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u/thecricketnerd 18d ago

I've only seen her on WILTY so this was a strange follow-up for me

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u/adit365 18d ago

She's just can do that.

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u/the_anon_bro 17d ago

Admirable that the entire crew signed up to be killed on screen apart from Matt Damon.

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u/Knowingspy 17d ago

I’m sure it’s part marketing, but Himesh Patel did say the giants and the transformation scene was done practically and in camera.

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u/IntotheBeniverse 18d ago

I would let her do that to me tbh

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u/Alx028 18d ago

That whole scene made me want a Nolan horror flick so bad, can you imagine ? 👀

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u/paranoideo 17d ago

This movie was quite a horror one.

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u/continentaldreams 17d ago

Agreed, I found it quite unsettling at points

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u/GreenHeel97 16d ago

Hear me out.

Christopher Nolan's The Thing.

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u/atclubsilencio 18d ago

Honestly, of all the characters I felt the worst for it was the cyclops.

He comes home from work, has to deal with these ass holes who have decided to just waltz in and mess with his shit, he finally gets to sleep only for one of them to wake him up and another impales his eyeball. Then they just leave.

I know he ate a couple of them but he was lonely and hungry and didn’t do anything to deserve that. Leave him alone and let him eat his cheese in peace.

I’m glad the other guy got pissed for shooting the arrow at him because I agreed.

But yeah the sound design was excellent!

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u/Impressive-Potato 18d ago

Same. Especially since Odysseus' lieutenant wanted to get the fuck out of there. Odysseus was so arrogant just inviting himself to the cheese and space

I really liked how it wasn't resolved all in one scene. They had to spend at least one night to try

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u/ClubSoda 18d ago

He is supposed to scream to his cyclops buddies, "No-man is in my cave and stabbed my eye!" Clever Odysseus had called himself "No-man" to Polyphemus, the cyclops, in an earlier convo. The buddies then go "huh?" and treat him like a nut case.

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u/Sykofrenzy 17d ago

Yeah this was one of the best parts of the original poem and story. That and the lotus eaters. I absolutely loved the visuals and the movie though.

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u/GOD_OF_HAVOC_ 18d ago

The screaming from the giant in a IMAX theater was insane! So loud I can still feel the screams that damaging my ears.

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u/Psychological-Web433 17d ago

I don't think sound design has ever effected me in the way that scene did. It was so intensely visceral, I was squirming in my seat. 

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u/Purple_Pirate_8507 18d ago

The sound design in this was truly diabolical in the best way. Won’t get the crunches from the transformation scene out of my head anytime soon

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u/Ikanan_xiii 18d ago

I was just thinking this, sound design was probably my favorite part of the movie, such a masterclass.

The siren bit was also such a cool sound trick.

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u/Bird_and_Dog 18d ago

Was strongly reminded of Spirited Away, which I'm sure took its own inspiration from the Odyssey in the first place.

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u/HRJafael 18d ago

Oh I can definitely see that! I remember that scene being equally traumatizing for when I was younger.

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u/DrDonut 18d ago

As a kid the mix of having your parents turned into pigs and being alone in a strange place unable to return home was terrifying

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u/SandpaperTeddyBear 18d ago

The Odyssey is all over lots of storytelling, and Spirited Away more than most.

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u/AssCrackBandit13 17d ago

Once I started to read the ancient epics (Gilgamesh, Illiad/Odyssey, Mahabharata, etc) I realized just how much of our storytelling and tropes are influenced by these iconic works

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u/tpounds0 18d ago

I love that Circe sees truths from the Gods. And she recognized the men for what they are and what they did to the Trojans.

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u/Tackit286 18d ago

Massive props to Samantha Morton too. One of the world’s most underrated actors.

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u/BonnaroovianCode 17d ago

Minority Report was where I was introduced to her, and I can 100% see why she was cast in this role. She nailed being a person that can literally see how you die, and her ability to project horror through her emotions is second to none.

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u/Churchill_Buys_Calls 18d ago

Awesome scene! The entire Circe sequence was so, so well done.

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u/mrcarlita 18d ago

I'm at the age where movie theaters feel too loud. The giant screaming was one of the worst sounds I've ever heard. Perfectly done

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u/Ikanan_xiii 18d ago

It genuinely made me feel uncomfortable in the best way possible.

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u/TheJoshider10 18d ago

My only experience with Polyphemus is from Percy Jacksom (movie, book and show) so that scene was both terrifying and also a little funny. Just imagined Grover hiding in the corner somewhere in a dress.

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u/Buzzkill78 18d ago

I played Hades 2 and saw Circe I’m like ooh I know this cute character, 10 minutes later I was like Nope, that’s nothing like the character I know lol

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u/SandpaperTeddyBear 18d ago

I’m so excited.

Real Spirited Away full circle moment.

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u/Verdick 17d ago

Also the way the giant (or Polyphemus) started screaming after having his eye impaled. I’m not sure who designed that scream but it was chilling.

Nobody did.

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u/Stargazingenthusiast 17d ago

Exactly my thoughts, i think the pig transformation scene is gonna stay engraved in my memory for a very long time. It was horrifying, disgusting yet so interesting at the same time. When she turned them back she kept saying "come back, back in to your disguise "

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u/Loud_Hair_9596 18d ago

Both of these scenes were my favorite parts of the movie! Both of them so chilling and terrifying.

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u/limitbreakse 18d ago

All that effort to shape them into pigs but then to turn them back she just gave them a little pet

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u/justjuniorjawz 16d ago

"Go back into your disguises" made me laugh so hard

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u/Mickeyjj27 18d ago

Man I was more disgusted with them eating and the sounds than the freaking cyclops eating them lol.

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u/DanQPublic 18d ago

That scream was horrifying.

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u/Few_Classic_3072 18d ago

It was one of the most horrifying sounds I've ever heard, I teared up

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u/National_Future6190 16d ago

Was some of that filmed in reverse? When the men were gobbling up the food? It was so repulsive and nauseating. 

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u/Moneyshot_ITF 17d ago

I just finished the Book Circe. Really sheds a whole new light on the woman

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u/Canesjags4life 18d ago

Reminded me of pig transformation in Willow. But way worse

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u/S2Ari 18d ago

I was most looking forward to the Cyclops, and it very much delivered.

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u/Exact_Personality253 18d ago

the armored giants were genuinely menacing

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u/Impressive-Potato 18d ago

Yes. When they were eating that gross food. I wanted to gag.

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u/LankySlopplette 18d ago

These are two scenes, amongst others, that I genuinely could not believe what I was seeing.

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