00:00You didn't understand the scenes with Calypso while watching Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, let me explain everything.
00:04Okay, first of all, for those who are wondering, yes, Calypso is very real, she's a nymph, she is
00:07played by Charlize Theron.
00:08She is not a hallucination at all; she has risen as high as Ulysses, and because she is alone on
00:11She has been exiled from her island for a very long time.
00:13She falls instantly in love with him as soon as he arrives as a shipwrecked survivor.
00:16Obviously, the film plays on the ambiguity of Ulysses' memory, and it is partly this ambiguity that controls the narrative.
00:20his perception of reality.
00:21Now, as for what she feeds him, the famous lotus flowers, they mainly serve to erase him
00:25and erase his memories.
00:30Immobile and paradisiacal, a life without suffering, she also prevents him from aging, because she wishes to make him immortal.
00:35to fill his loneliness.
00:36His body keeps his instincts intact; he spends his days building rafts without knowing why.
00:39Moreover, contrary to the myth, it is Calypso herself who decides to let him go in this version of
00:43Nolan,
00:44seeing how Odysseus's instinct irrevocably drives him towards the ocean, and towards a family whose
00:48He doesn't even remember anymore.
00:49Now, this has shocked many, but yes, Ulysses did, in a manner of speaking, cheat on Penelope all those years.
00:52Because he and Calypso slept together; they are in fact lovers, even if he is clearly unaware of it.
00:57of what he does,
00:57in particular, by constantly ingesting his famous lotus flowers, he didn't even know that 7 years had passed.
01:01So, did you understand everything? And don't forget to subscribe!
