Perhaps, a Straussian reading of this would be that, Nolan indeed trying to point out this exact thing, of how consumed we become by our own narratives, that we forget to take into account the people on the recieving end of the attrocities.3/5

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“Any serious depiction of violence, ancient or modern, must show the perspectives of the victims as well as the perpetrators, and the Homeric poems easily clear the bar – but Nolan doesn’t. The Trojans are dehumanised by their masks; we know none of them by name or face. The hands of Odysseus and Telemachus are bloodied only by the most righteous, computer-game modes of killing, and we feel no pity or horror at the deaths of their victims, whether Trojans, giants, suitors or slaves. During the sack of Troy – which he supposedly organised – Odysseus gazes around in bewilderment and horror, as if he has never seen a massacre before.Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Manlrb.co.uk