Troy

I was back at work yesterday and I actually felt better for it. Instead of having little to do at home and thinking only about being unwell and worrying about the money I had lost by being sick, I had people to talk to and a bit of work to do to keep my mind occupied.
The film Troy was on last night too and, as I hadn't seen it before I decided to watch it. I was impressed with the whole thing. The effects looked real, the acting was actually very good and hot Greek, muscular men (not just Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom and Eric Bana either)!! What more could you ask for?
I was really impressed with the way they handled the "superhuman" aspect of the story. With ancient Greek stories come tales of gods and men with superhuman powers, but this film avoided that and instead "explained" how these "superhuman" traits could have been believed. For example with Achilles, the legend says that he was immune to harm except for his ankle because his mother dipped him in the river Styx, but forgot to wet the ankle she held him by.

""Spoiler warning""

When the seemingly unbeatable Achilles died in the film, firstly Paris shot an arrow through his ankle, then shot three arrows into his chest. Achilles ripped the chest arrows out before dying, thus, when his own soldiers found him all they could see was the arrow in his ankle, thus this "must" have been his only weak spot!!
I was impressed and would willingly watch the film again and again.