the movie 'troy' based on homer's illiad


'troy' synopsis:
the passion of two of history's legendary lovers, paris, prince of troy and helen, queen of sparta, ignites a war that will devastate a civilization. when paris steals helen away from her husband, familial pride dictates that an affront to menelaus is an affront to his brother agamemnon, king of the myceneans, who soon unites all the tribes of greece to steal helen back from troy.

watched the dvd of the movie at home with ida. i seldom watch movie at home, much less at a cinema. in fact, have not stepped into a cinema for more than 20 years. my being able to sit through the whole length of this movie has to be the historical connection. in my school's history lesson, we had seen illustrations of the trojan horse. the other reason is that i wanted to affirm that the weakness of achilles was his heel.

though the scenes were quite brutal and in some instances quite heart-wrenching, i enjoyed watching the show. i was warmed by the gentlemanly and honourable way they went about fighting, even though there was a lot of killing. they would not attack a man when he was down and defenceless and they allowed the enemies to retrieve the dead after a battle.

i was impressed by the scale of things, especially, the ten thousand ships, even if it was a computer assisted creation. i also learned how the expression ' a face that launches a thousand ships' came about.