Bosh

Rating: 8/10 (14 July 2010)

'Modern art is all bosh, isn't it', says young Cordelia to Charles Ryder in 'Brideshead Revisited', to which he agrees. Well, I just finished watching 'Troy' and it's all Bosh. The setting is elaborate and lavish, the battles lively and an abundance of untimely deaths. Just as a good action movie should be. But there it all ends. The only true to the Iliad part of the film is Achilles's heel. A siege that lasted years is all rolled up in a few weeks. There is no doubt in my mind that a person who has actually read the Iliad that Achilles and Patroclus were lovers. Any other interpretation is simply childish or blissfully ignorant. I do not mince my words. Nor do I want to bore readers to defend something so obvious but never hinted at in the film. If the director could find it in himself to cover his one eye, why didn't he cover both of them. This 2 disc widescreen edition will end in the rubbish bin. Flawed as it may be at times I want to end this lesson by trying to interest movie goers in 'Alexander' by Oliver Stone. An infinitely superior production.