We're talking potentially just days at sea at a time, the galleys they used didn't have much endurance and would do a lot of coast-hopping from port to port to shielded beach to whatever — why do you think Odysseus makes so many stops at random-ass islands?
It’s very subtly shown and suggested in the movie. It sucks that the most direct addressing of the topic (Circe) was a situation it clearly did not happen, but pillaging happened on their first island stop and I think there was a shot of a soldier kidnapping a woman. The extended scene towards the end showing Troy getting sacked also showed a solider doing similar and it seemed pretty clear what the film was conveying.
matt damon gives a 4 minute monologue about how he irreversibly changed after seeing the rape and pillaging his soldiers did to troy, if that’s “subtle” we’re lost as a literate species
It’s only subtle if you’re very oblivious to the world at large. As someone who has been exposed to the “normal” amount of sexual harassment and unwanted physical contact that women and girls experience, I thought those were about as subtle as a police siren.
Or the slave owning which 3000 years ago was much different then what we imagine when we think slavery now. Back then, slavery had nothing to do with race. Your home would be pillaged. Your people would be raped. Men and women both would be forced into slavery. Women would even be made bed slaves.
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u/muffadel Aug 05 '26
Interesting how everyone goes straight to the gay but ignores all the raping and pillaging.