Alexander the Great... "sick."

Rating: 10/10 (27 January 2020)

One might expect an umpteenth peplum about Alexander's greatness (as there have been good ones), but it is in fact another axis that Oliver Stone seems to have taken: that of the slightly "disturbed" psychology of Alexander.
And that's good, because what's the point of redoing the wheel?
I find it interesting to show the dark sides of a character that we only know through greatness and exploits.
It doesn't take away the brilliant strategist he may have been (to inspire all the great strategists who followed him), nor the greatness of his exploits and of the character himself.
But what's the point of showing them again and again, when it's already all we know about him?
But of course, you have to know how to watch this film by recontextualizing with the times, if you don't want to miss the bottom, and fall into the trap of retaining only the madness and megalomania of Stone's Alexander.