One of the most difficult lessons to learn in life, because it is counterintuitive, is that if some is good, more may well be worse, even much worse. The whole of the American consumer advertising industry is dedicated to helping us forget that lesson, if we were ever smart enough to learn it.
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
And here are two more: avoid people who constantly disturb your peace of mind, and stop trying to fix people who don't want to be fixed.
Excellent performances and spectacle, with Odysseus facing a parade of hostile wonders. The design of the Cyclops, with his twisted nose and eye, is marvelously creepy. You find yourself feeling a little sympathy even for the Cyclops and Circe, as you glimpse the humanity beneath the monster.
It all builds up to a thundering final fight scene in the king’s palace on Ithaca, and a rumination on what cleverness can cost. It’s three hours absorbingly spent.
