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I’m going to start this by saying that I’m not a great writer and this will probably be kind of choppy but bear with me. Also spoilers for most of Christopher Nolan’s new film.

Across the movie we see 10 different magical things or things that do not exist in our world. The Cyclops, The Laestrygonians which for sake of not typing that every time I’ll just say Gonians, Circe, The shades from the underworld, I guess Charybdis, Scylla, The Sirens, Calypso, and Athena.

Lets look at all of these monsters in more detail.

1. The Cyclops - A huge lurking giant who unlike the Cyclops featured in the book seems to have less “humanity” and is just an animal or creature. No wine scene and no “Nobody“ this thing is just some animal. Still something we don’t have in our world, but not magical.
2. The Gonians - This is the first unexplainible instance of magic we see. These big ogre like things are making trees move. You could say that oh the trees weren’t moving it was just a thick forest but I choose not to believe that since we saw them move. This is magic number one.
3. Circe - Undeniably magical. This is magic number two. She turns the men into pigs.
4. Shades - Magic number three. Shades from the underworld.

5 & 6) Charybdis and Scylla - Could represent losing people to the rocks and the water, but I choose to believe that they are magic number 4 and 5 for now at least.

7. Sirens - You could argue they aren’t magical but their voice thing seems a little too powerful to not be magic number 6.

8. Calypso - Calypso is decidedly not magical as it’s revealed her powers only come from the probably hallucinogenic lotus flower she feeds ody.

9. Athena - Depending on how you interpret the movie, Athena is revealed to be a symbol of his guilt for murdering an innocent, as we learn that the innocent and “Athena” are one and the same. Probably his conscience, not a god, not magical.

10. Adding this last in the list because I almost forgot, the island with the cows where his crew betrayed him and died because of Zeus is magic number 7.

By now it seems pretty clear that there is magic in this movie. 7 pieces of it to be exact. But I’d like to propose a different solution. Remember this is what he told Calypso while under a hallucinogenic lotus for multiple years. I think this is his brain rationalizing what really happened. That he lost all his men either at war or at sea, that he couldn’t save them. Let’s look at these so called magical events again in a new light.

Athena - The only confirmed one, a manifestation of his guilt.

Shades - His guilt as to the many people who he lost in the war.

Sirens - This is just conjecture but I think his lust for women other than his wife, maybe Calypso.

Circe - Circe reminded him what his men had become, what the cast offs from Troy had become, they had become the men from the sea, eating, pillaging.

The sun gods cows - ”It’s not my fault my entire crew died I warned them besides it was all fated to happen anyway right guys”

Charybdis and Scylla - The deaths at sea and from crashing into rocks.

Gonians - This is a big stretch but stay with me. in the beggining we see the young boy Sinon get stabbed and killed by these brutes while they were powerless to stop him stuck in the wooden horse. The Gonians were literal brutes who trapped ody with trees while he had to watch his men die. See the connection? Eh, I’ll work on that one but I think I have the general idea right.

The Cyclops - I have absolutely no clue and this is complete and utter speculation and probably is wrong but maybe the walls of troy. When he was stuck in Troy trying to open the gate for fear of his life that must have been really traumatic. So this is the manifestation of that. He‘s stuck in a cave with a man eating giant trying to get the door open.

Now we come to the big question, why, why did he do this. Why did his brain trigger this as a defense mechanism. I believe that there is 2 options. The first option, the one I originally believed is that he’s just traumatized that all his men died. But the second option, the one I believe now is that in the war he learned that gods weren’t real. He violated Zeus‘s law, he killed innocents, to no punishment. And he realized there are no gods. Which means that maybe he wasn’t in the right when he went to this war. Maybe Agamemnon wasn’t in the right when he sacrificed his child. Maybe his whole life has been a lie. What’s easier to believe. That everything you’ve ever known has been wrong, or that you met a cyclops.

One more thing. I noticed that near the end of the movie he says the people from the sea are the cast of Troy war people. I think by this point he’s remembered the truth, and the lotus has worn off. At this point he know that gods are not real. I can’t prove this, but I’m pretty sure.

Thanks for reading this piece of word vomit, if you liked this please don't try to find more on my profile this is the first thing of its kind I’ve done. Any suggestions, edits, comment it this is kind of rushed so I understand.

I’m going to start this by saying that I’m not a great writer and this will probably be kind of choppy but bear with me. Also spoilers for most of Christopher Nolan’s new film.

Across the movie we see 10 different magical things or things that do not exist in our world. The Cyclops, The Laestrygonians which for sake of not typing that every time I’ll just say Gonians, Circe, The shades from the underworld, I guess Charybdis, Scylla, The Sirens, Calypso, and Athena.

Lets look at all of these monsters in more detail.

1. The Cyclops - A huge lurking giant who unlike the Cyclops featured in the book seems to have less “humanity” and is just an animal or creature. No wine scene and no “Nobody“ this thing is just some animal. Still something we don’t have in our world, but not magical.
2. The Gonians - This is the first unexplainible instance of magic we see. These big ogre like things are making trees move. You could say that oh the trees weren’t moving it was just a thick forest but I choose not to believe that since we saw them move. This is magic number one.
3. Circe - Undeniably magical. This is magic number two. She turns the men into pigs.
4. Shades - Magic number three. Shades from the underworld.

5 & 6) Charybdis and Scylla - Could represent losing people to the rocks and the water, but I choose to believe that they are magic number 4 and 5 for now at least.

7. Sirens - You could argue they aren’t magical but their voice thing seems a little too powerful to not be magic number 6.

8. Calypso - Calypso is decidedly not magical as it’s revealed her powers only come from the probably hallucinogenic lotus flower she feeds ody.

9. Athena - Depending on how you interpret the movie, Athena is revealed to be a symbol of his guilt for murdering an innocent, as we learn that the innocent and “Athena” are one and the same. Probably his conscience, not a god, not magical.

10. Adding this last in the list because I almost forgot, the island with the cows where his crew betrayed him and died because of Zeus is magic number 7.

By now it seems pretty clear that there is magic in this movie. 7 pieces of it to be exact. But I’d like to propose a different solution. Remember this is what he told Calypso while under a hallucinogenic lotus for multiple years. I think this is his brain rationalizing what really happened. That he lost all his men either at war or at sea, that he couldn’t save them. Let’s look at these so called magical events again in a new light.

Athena - The only confirmed one, a manifestation of his guilt.

Shades - His guilt as to the many people who he lost in the war.

Sirens - This is just conjecture but I think his lust for women other than his wife, maybe Calypso.

Circe - Circe reminded him what his men had become, what the cast offs from Troy had become, they had become the men from the sea, eating, pillaging.

The sun gods cows - ”It’s not my fault my entire crew died I warned them besides it was all fated to happen anyway right guys”

Charybdis and Scylla - The deaths at sea and from crashing into rocks.

Gonians - This is a big stretch but stay with me. in the beggining we see the young boy Sinon get stabbed and killed by these brutes while they were powerless to stop him stuck in the wooden horse. The Gonians were literal brutes who trapped ody with trees while he had to watch his men die. See the connection? Eh, I’ll work on that one but I think I have the general idea right.

The Cyclops - I have absolutely no clue and this is complete and utter speculation and probably is wrong but maybe the walls of troy. When he was stuck in Troy trying to open the gate for fear of his life that must have been really traumatic. So this is the manifestation of that. He‘s stuck in a cave with a man eating giant trying to get the door open.

Now we come to the big question, why, why did he do this. Why did his brain trigger this as a defense mechanism. I believe that there is 2 options. The first option, the one I originally believed is that he’s just traumatized that all his men died. But the second option, the one I believe now is that in the war he learned that gods weren’t real. He violated Zeus‘s law, he killed innocents, to no punishment. And he realized there are no gods. Which means that maybe he wasn’t in the right when he went to this war. Maybe Agamemnon wasn’t in the right when he sacrificed his child. Maybe his whole life has been a lie. What’s easier to believe. That everything you’ve ever known has been wrong, or that you met a cyclops.

One more thing. I noticed that near the end of the movie he says the people from the sea are the cast of Troy war people. I think by this point he’s remembered the truth, and the lotus has worn off. At this point he know that gods are not real. I can’t prove this, but I’m pretty sure.

Thanks for reading this piece of word vomit, if you liked this please don't try to find more on my profile this is the first thing of its kind I’ve done. Any suggestions, edits, comment it this is kind of rushed so I understand.

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