Uberto Pasolini
Italian film producer and directorWikipedia
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Sep 19, 2026
Thucydides' Melian Dialogue: "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must"
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55:49Richard AbelsHOST
That's actually a difficult question to answer.
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55:52Richard AbelsHOST
You know, you might think so because if you read Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey, massacres happen, right? And Homer's heroes are not apologetic about it, despite what you might think if you went to see Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey or Uberto Pasolini's The Return.
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56:14Richard AbelsHOST
the two recent movies that are adaptations of the Odyssey.
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56:19Richard AbelsHOST
And in both of those, what you have is an Odysseus who is suffering from PTSD because he has witnessed the horrors of war.
The Odyssey is elite | Intercut Reviews
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15:06Zach ShevichHOST
It was really intelligent, I think.
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15:08Zach ShevichHOST
I mean, the Uberto Pasolini film does the same idea, but to sort of center the drama around the idea of coming home, right? That sort of animates everything.
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15:19Zach ShevichHOST
It allows Nolan to kind of break the film into segments the way that all his best films have.
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15:24Zach ShevichHOST
sort of cut between different timelines.