The More Things Change...

Rating: 10/10 (15 May 2004)

This stirring epic based on Homer's Illiad shows how little has changed in over 3ooo years. Men still yearn to leave their mark on the world, to gain immortality at cost to their families, their lives, and their mortal souls. Kings and Tyrants still send innocent souls off to fight their wars rather than fight them themselves. And a nation of a thousand years can disappear in a day.
Proving that old aged addage is true; the more things change, the more they stay the same.
But what has disappeared in those we tend to hail as heroes, in general, is honor and self sacrifice; the true heroes, even in our culture, do these things and tend to become legends only shortly after they have died. The Greeks honored their heroes even as they lived!

Troy captures the immutable truths of Homer's timeless epic, a time when giants walked among men.