Warning:<\/em><\/strong> Contains spoilers for Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey<\/em><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n When Christopher Nolan assembles a movie cast, fans immediately scramble to figure out who\u2019s playing who. That\u2019s because his last two ensembles \u2013 on Oppenheimer<\/em>, and The Odyssey<\/em> \u2013 have been mind-blowing rosters of some of Hollywood\u2019s biggest talent. In his epic retelling of Homer\u2019s Ancient Greek poem, he has A-listers and legends \u2013 Charlize Theron, Zendaya, John Leguizamo, Lupita Nyong\u2019o \u2013 in relative bit-parts. But while The Odyssey<\/em> is stacked with astonishing performances across the board, one emerges as the unexpected, unforgettable soul of the movie: Elliot Page.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Rumour online had it that Page \u2013 in his second Nolan collaboration, 16 years after starring in Inception<\/em> as Ariadne, notably a name of mythological Greek origin \u2013 would play Achilles. But instead he appears as Sinon, one of Odysseus\u2019 men (notably not from Homer\u2019s Odyssey<\/em>, but from Vigil\u2019s The Aeneid<\/em>) who has a different fate in the Trojan War. It\u2019s a small role, accounting for a mere handful of The Odyssey<\/em>\u2019s 173 minutes. In fact, Sinon is absent for the actual odyssey itself. But it\u2019s an incredibly powerful performance that looms large over the whole movie, framing Odysseus\u2019 journey \u2013 and personal failings \u2013 across the runtime.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Page\u2019s face is one of the first we see in the film: he\u2019s left alone on the beach to be the messenger to the Trojans that the warring Greeks have left them a gift \u2013 a large wooden horse. Who could refuse? And in the Trojans\u2019 (as it turns out, highly-warranted) suspicion, Sinon is killed for his trouble, punctured with arrows before the Siege Of Troy has even begun. It\u2019s an unceremonious end, a tragedy in its own right. His body isn\u2019t even properly laid to rest.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Page’s performance is rageful and righteous, but tragic and touching.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n But over the film, Sinon re-emerges to become the embodiment of Odysseus\u2019 guilt, as the Siege eventually becomes recontextualised, and we come to understand our supposed hero\u2019s shame and remorse. On the dark sands of Hades, the Greek underworld, Odysseus comes face-to-face with Page\u2019s Sinon once more in the middle of his journey; the soldier\u2019s spirit (or, \u2018shade\u2019) appears and delivers a crushing hidden truth to the audience. In chiding Odysseus for his shortcomings \u2013 and outright deceptions \u2013 we learn that Sinon, too, was deceived. Unlike in The Aeneid<\/em>, this version of Sinon didn\u2019t know that his fellow men were nestled in the Trojan Horse; he truly believed it to be a gift in the name of the goddess Athena. He died for that belief. He is yet another victim of Odysseus\u2019 lie.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n It\u2019s already compounded by the fact that Sinon never should have been there in the first place. He was drafted as a young boy in the place of Antinous, Robert Pattinson\u2019s deliciously slippery suitor, who now vies for the affection of Odysseus\u2019 wife Penelope back in Ithaca. The young Antinous\u2019 short-straw was swapped for Sinon\u2019s, sending Page\u2019s character off to fight in the war instead \u2013 another ruse in which Odysseus is complicit, agreeing that Antinous should stay home to be a companion to his son, Telemachus (Tom Holland).<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n This pile-up of lies all comes crashing upon Odysseus in Sinon\u2019s form. Page plays it perfectly. He is rageful and righteous, but tragic and touching, a vision of wasted life smeared in the black ash of Hades. It\u2019s truly haunting; no wonder that Odysseus himself is literally haunted by Sinon\u2019s spectre. Among the heft of the Cyclops setpiece, the lure of the Sirens, and the body-horror terror of the Circe sequence (another major standout), it\u2019s the Hades sequence that truly chills the blood \u2013 largely thanks to Page\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sinon begins the movie, and re-appears during Odysseus\u2019 journey. But he\u2019s also present thematically in its final chapter. When Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, disguised as a beggar, he takes on a name of great significance: \u2018Sinon\u2019. \u201cThe greatest soldier who ever lived,\u201d in Odysseus\u2019 words. And as we come to learn, he doesn\u2019t come home in swaggering victory; he returns to reckon with his complicity in devaluing the sacred codes of the world. He has lied, and those lies have cost many, many lives \u2013 in Troy and beyond, Sinon\u2019s included. He assumes the mantle of the thing that has haunted him; much as Bruce Wayne internalises the Bat when he returns to Wayne Manor in Batman Begins<\/em>. And when Odysseus finally takes down Antinous, he returns Sinon\u2019s swapped straw to him too \u2013 an item that has become as totemic as his Athena brooch. It is some small measure towards making things right.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s been a long time since Elliot Page appeared in a blockbuster movie \u2013 his last was perhaps X-Men: Days Of Future Past<\/em> in 2014. But seeing him back on the big screen, and working back with Nolan again, was a reminder of his talent and gravitas. With a small role, he remains present of mind in The Odyssey<\/em> from beginning to end \u2013 and long to linger after the credits roll too. Encore, please!<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The Odyssey is out now in cinemas<\/em><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Warning: Contains spoilers for Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey When Christopher Nolan assembles a movie cast, fans immediately scramble to figure out who\u2019s playing who. That\u2019s because his last two ensembles \u2013 on Oppenheimer, and The Odyssey \u2013 have been mind-blowing rosters of some of Hollywood\u2019s biggest talent. 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