Product: The Odyssey [VHS] (1997)
Rating: 5.0
fantastic film that is worth seeing
I saw this movie in February '98, whilst at university. I came home, told my husband all about it and eargerly went out to the stores to try and buy it. No such luck, like Odysseus, I tried hard to get to finish what I had started, but to no avail. It has now been almost a year. My husband has given up as we endlessly search every video shop, every library, and every outlet where it can be bought. We are told it has been withdrawn from Britain, and no other outlet seems to use the P.A.L format. Somebody please help. It is one of the most magnificent films I have ever seen and would go so far as to say that watching it was a life altering experience. If one looks beyond the storyline and the basic plot and begins to understand the more subtle themes, then it truely warrants full exposure. I am a classical studies undergraduate at Keele university, England and watching this film did not only give me personal pleasure, it fulfilled the aim of contributing to my knowledge of this wonderful epic poem. I am convinced this is one of the best interpretations of this poem ever made and I am equally convinced that Homer would have been 'most proud'.