A clever device invented to end a war. Destruction of the sacred and violence against the innocent. Mayhem. Pillage. Atrocity. Embers and sparks rising into the night air. The inventor himself stands sorrowful in victory, guilty amid the celebration.
Don’t be fooled into thinking I’m describing Robert Oppenheimer and America’s victory over Japan. It’s Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus, moving through the alleys and open squares of Troy as his fellow Bronze Age Greeks storm and sack the Trojan citadel.
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