Like bitch ass father like bitch ass son. The script feels like someone’s high school English project. Juliette Binoche doesn’t AGE oml she should’ve fucked off with the nurse a longggg time ago

Like bitch ass father like bitch ass son. The script feels like someone’s high school English project. Juliette Binoche doesn’t AGE oml she should’ve fucked off with the nurse a longggg time ago

❝How can men find their way to war but not find their way home?❞
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I went into this with low expectations, but it was a very captivating film. Although it's based on the Odyssey, the plot was slightly different to how it plays out in the epic, but I found that it didn't really affect the watching experience. Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche were the main reasons I watched The Return, and as usual they didn't disappoint. If they hadn't been part of the cast the film would definitely have been bland and not as impactful. I really liked the cinematography, and the visuals of the establishing shots, locations and sets were beautiful and soulful.
I may be biased because I generally love historical films/adaptations but The Return was great; I look forward to seeing how Christopher Nolan adapts the Odyssey and how it differs to this film.

❝How can men find their way to war but not find their way home?❞
⊱ ────── {⋆⌘⋆} ────── ⊰

I went into this with low expectations, but it was a very captivating film. Although it's based on the Odyssey, the plot was slightly different to how it plays out in the epic, but I found that it didn't really affect the watching experience. Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche were the main reasons I watched The Return, and as usual they didn't disappoint. If they hadn't been part of the cast the film would definitely have been bland and not as impactful. I really liked the cinematography, and the visuals of the establishing shots, locations and sets were beautiful and soulful.
I may be biased because I generally love historical films/adaptations but The Return was great; I look forward to seeing how Christopher Nolan adapts the Odyssey and how it differs to this film.

i have so much love for the iliad and the odyssey, so much so that i don't think i will ever truly like any screen adaptation of it. the odyssey is a very difficult text to adapt well.

this adaptation is heavily carried by fiennes and binoche's incredible acting and screen presence that elevate the entire film, i love their takes on odysseus and penelope. the brute physicality of fiennes added so much to his performance; he is truly a masterful actor.

this is a fairly decent adaptation, but the pacing becomes tedious; however, the final 20 minutes and odysseus slaying the suitors was excellent. this film is stripped of the mythology of homer's works, so it's hard to see past just a bunch of barely clothed men hanging out on an island. i also don't like the characterisation of telemachus in this film either.

"your past will be my past, and mine yours. we will remember, and we will forget, together. and then we'll live, together"

i have so much love for the iliad and the odyssey, so much so that i don't think i will ever truly like any screen adaptation of it. the odyssey is a very difficult text to adapt well.

this adaptation is heavily carried by fiennes and binoche's incredible acting and screen presence that elevate the entire film, i love their takes on odysseus and penelope. the brute physicality of fiennes added so much to his performance; he is truly a masterful actor.

this is a fairly decent adaptation, but the pacing becomes tedious; however, the final 20 minutes and odysseus slaying the suitors was excellent. this film is stripped of the mythology of homer's works, so it's hard to see past just a bunch of barely clothed men hanging out on an island. i also don't like the characterisation of telemachus in this film either.

"your past will be my past, and mine yours. we will remember, and we will forget, together. and then we'll live, together"

see, its good... but if i watched this blindly with zero context of the odyssey and not reading the epic at all - i have, multiple times - it would be hard to decipher. like, why is this guy so desperate to get home? why is the dog so symbolic? if i hadn't read the original, i'd have felt nothing for him, because we wouldn't know his motives... it was decent, but i expected a lot more than ralph fiennes running around like a madman and slaughtering suitors for ehem no reason whatsoever. i guess i didn't feel anything for him, in short, despite having read the odyssey.

see, its good... but if i watched this blindly with zero context of the odyssey and not reading the epic at all - i have, multiple times - it would be hard to decipher. like, why is this guy so desperate to get home? why is the dog so symbolic? if i hadn't read the original, i'd have felt nothing for him, because we wouldn't know his motives... it was decent, but i expected a lot more than ralph fiennes running around like a madman and slaughtering suitors for ehem no reason whatsoever. i guess i didn't feel anything for him, in short, despite having read the odyssey.

It was soooo slooow but damnit I really liked the atmosphere.
And I really liked the scene of Ody stringing the bow.

It was soooo slooow but damnit I really liked the atmosphere.
And I really liked the scene of Ody stringing the bow.