Odyssey: A Preview of World War III?

The film includes many intentional departures from the original work.

Oh Rang said the reason 'Odyssey' is a conspiracy film is Christianity. Although the Mycenaean civilization depicted predates Christianity, making Odysseus's guilt over war a main narrative thread is, in his analysis, a deliberately Christian interpretation. This is seen as reflecting interpretations of Odysseus from a Christian perspective, such as in Dante's Divine Comedy.

In the film, the Trojan Horse is depicted without wheels and half-buried in the ground. The director explained that if the horse had wheels, the Trojans would not have been fooled, and that the half-buried image was inspired by the half-buried Statue of Liberty in 'Planet of the Apes.' This staging was used as a visual device symbolizing the destruction of civilization.

Oh Rang said that three of these four kinds of horses appear in the film, excluding the pale horse. The white horse signifies conquest, the red horse war, the black horse famine, and the pale horse death. The appearance of the horse and the white horse in the film can be read as depicting war and famine.

The Sea Peoples do not appear directly in the film, but they are mentioned several times and portrayed as barbarians destroying Greek civilization. The message conveyed is that one must prepare for their invasion, and in actual history the Sea Peoples are known as a major cause of the fall of the Mycenaean civilization, sea-borne invaders arising from climate change and famine.

Specifically, the falx sword used in the Thracian region of northern Greece is mentioned, and Oh Rang said that the director's repeated references to the Sea Peoples can be interpreted as a warning of the coming war.

The deep state is said to adopt a strategy of establishing a new order amid chaos, and is analyzed as seeking, through World War III, a transition to the Fourth Industrial Revolution era.

Oh Rang said that if the film's sloppiness and the forced Christian messages scattered throughout are true, it makes sense. This is analyzed as an intent to announce war to the public. He noted that tensions are currently escalating between Russia (the Baltic states), Israel (Iran), China (Taiwan), and North Korea (South Korea), and argued that just as the film '300' justified the invasion of Iraq, 'Odyssey' may justify an Israeli invasion.

He said the deep state always gains money and power through war, and that Odysseus's double-bladed axe is interpreted as representing power and punishment, while the bow and spear represent modern weapons such as missiles.

Oh Rang explained that Israel currently harbors ambitions to conquer its neighboring Arab states, and that a conspiracy theory holds that a new Middle East war launched by Israel will start World War III. He noted that Israel, the only Jewish state in the Middle East, has won five wars, and argued that this ambition implies a nuclear war expected to kill 70% of the world's population.

Director Nolan depicted all the monsters in the film as savage, without a single line of dialogue. In ancient Greek and Roman mythology, monsters represent destructive forces of nature, outsiders, and foreign civilizations. Oh Rang analyzed that by portraying the monsters as barbarians he emphasizes the horror of war, and by muting the Sirens' song and transforming it from seduction into guilt and regret, he intends to drive every scene of the film toward the element of guilt rather than temptation.

Oh Rang explained that the Romans called March 'the month of Mars,' beginning the year with war and spoils, and that on October 19, in autumn, they purified weapons, dedicated them to Mars, and ended the war. A claim has been raised that the deep state is imitating this ancient Roman war planning.

Oh Rang said that the 'law of Zeus' was originally a custom called 'xenia,' but was probably changed to 'law of Zeus' because audiences might not understand xenia. In an age without public order or welfare, ancient people created the custom of xenia to survive together, building a system of mutual aid. At that time, people believed gods disguised themselves as wanderers, so welcoming guests was enforced.

Before shooting his prey with a bow, Odysseus deliberately plucks the bowstring to announce his presence. Oh Rang explained that this signifies not a cowardly ambush but the start of a legitimate fight, and is interpreted as an honorable act of declaring war, notifying the enemy that a battle is underway.

The reason ancient Greeks insisted on fair combat was that they valued honor above life. Warfare in this period was marked by scarce bronze weapons, so only a few noble heroes could arm themselves formally, and because agriculture had not developed, large-scale war was less common than single combat between a few nobles deciding victory or defeat.

Infiltrating as a guest and attacking from within was a violation of divine law.

Treating today's civilized society as the 'thesis,' the barbaric destruction from World War III as the 'antithesis,' and the AI-driven Fourth Industrial Revolution era arriving after the war as the 'synthesis,' he presented a dialectical logic connecting the fall of the Mycenaean civilization with the AI Fourth Industrial Revolution era.