An aspect of Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey that I found so very striking was how it reinterprets Homer’s epic poem. The classic is an epic adventure: wily Odysseus outsmarts his foes and wins fame and fortune on his decade-long journey home. It’s the story we know, the story we read in school, the… Continue reading Price of Greatness
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No Home from War
I’m in college now, and one of the things you do in college is write essays. Every now and then one of these essays (which are certainly not rants) have a similar thread to the ones I post here. So I have an assignment to look at a contemporary depiction of a soldier’s return home… Continue reading No Home from War
Essays, Not Rants! 