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A Story of Pride and Cultural Plunder There is a lot to uncover under the dust of what is left after the Trojan War, but there is a lot more under the rubble of Nolan's technical beauty. Imagine being displaced, dispossessed, humiliated, stripped of your rights and honor/"pride". Think of Odysseus; he should know what it is to be away from your home, your future in the hands of something "divine" and powerful. Think of how hopeless and desperate he is. Now think of the people of Western Sahara, and how they are displaced by colonialism, and how this film is a disgrace on their freedom and culture. While Nolan claims and builds his "auteur" identity upon his naive blindness to politics, he actively blindfolds the audience to his doings, enabling cultural plunder, affirming oppression, contradicting the whole theme of "The Odyssey". Either being naive or a lack of care (which I assure you is not the case), one cannot claim to be an auteur director by solely claiming an identity of "filmmaker". Nolan knows how to perfectly use a media tool to cover all these, and not seeing all these is not our fault at all; he is just so good with his craft. I hope his pride will be the end of the whole Hollywood mentality that plagues the scene. Under the mask of stories, there is something he hides, and that is pride. Just like he washed clean Odysseus of his pride, which the gods cursed him for.