Nolan's Odyssey Turns the Sack of Troy Into an Apocalypse
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Christopher Nolan's Odyssey does not declare itself post-apocalyptic until the very end.
The twist is that the sack of Troy was such a violent breach of Zeus' law of xenia—hospitality—that it dissolved the entire logic of civilization.
The Age of Bronze is doomed, and later generations will have only songs to remember its makers.
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Take
The reveal makes hospitality the load-bearing rule: it is a breach of xenia that dissolves the entire logic of civilization.
Pushback
The detail about future generations having only songs makes the apocalypse a memory problem too: what remains is a story, not a world.