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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2025 4:53 pm
Chapter 4. Mirror
On February 15th, I had the movie “Never Back Down” playing quietly during the day, not really to watch it but just to create a kind atmosphere. I’m surrounding myself with positive films to build up strength against the evil around me. Imagine this: the movie is playing in the bedroom, I walk past to grab another phone for charging, and at that moment, the boy in the beginning of “Never Back Down” talks about Achilles’ shield. I think: “Wow. Achilles again.” The system keeps highlighting Achilles to me. But why Achilles? Why the Trojan War? What is the system trying to tell me with this? Naturally, I record all this, and I think it’s strange — Achilles’ heel, I’ve heard about it, everyone has. The legend is that Achilles died because he was shot in the heel with an arrow, though he was otherwise invulnerable. That’s the story. But! There is another story about Achilles, specifically about his shield, which was not made for nothing, and that this shield was prepared at the very end, at the moment of the last battles, so to speak, of the Trojan War. Maybe the system is trying to draw an analogy between this Trojan War and the good and evil currently happening in the world, suggesting that perhaps it will also end soon, that only the final battle remains, I don’t know. But also, if you read Homer and all the translations where stories about Achilles appear, Achilles is presented more as a deity or almost deified. Whereas in the movie “Troy,” he is portrayed simply as a cool warrior who is ultimately defeated... He fought for Sparta against Troy and crushed Troy, although the movie “Troy” portrays it as a good state where everyone worships Apollo. Achilles is portrayed as a god of death or as a warrior who kills everyone mercilessly. And why, after this, is Achilles considered good and glorified after the battle if he died there first and foremost? What is good about him? That he crushed Troy? So in the movie, it seems like he was on the side of evil and crushed the good, as I understood it, that these Greek Spartans were some kind of crazy barbarians who, together with Achilles, made the Trojan horse to get it inside Troy, because there were high walls there, and they killed and burned all the good peaceful people in Troy. That’s how I see it. I don’t quite get the point here, seriously, but I find it interesting to think about.
On February 15th, I had the movie “Never Back Down” playing quietly during the day, not really to watch it but just to create a kind atmosphere. I’m surrounding myself with positive films to build up strength against the evil around me. Imagine this: the movie is playing in the bedroom, I walk past to grab another phone for charging, and at that moment, the boy in the beginning of “Never Back Down” talks about Achilles’ shield. I think: “Wow. Achilles again.” The system keeps highlighting Achilles to me. But why Achilles? Why the Trojan War? What is the system trying to tell me with this? Naturally, I record all this, and I think it’s strange — Achilles’ heel, I’ve heard about it, everyone has. The legend is that Achilles died because he was shot in the heel with an arrow, though he was otherwise invulnerable. That’s the story. But! There is another story about Achilles, specifically about his shield, which was not made for nothing, and that this shield was prepared at the very end, at the moment of the last battles, so to speak, of the Trojan War. Maybe the system is trying to draw an analogy between this Trojan War and the good and evil currently happening in the world, suggesting that perhaps it will also end soon, that only the final battle remains, I don’t know. But also, if you read Homer and all the translations where stories about Achilles appear, Achilles is presented more as a deity or almost deified. Whereas in the movie “Troy,” he is portrayed simply as a cool warrior who is ultimately defeated... He fought for Sparta against Troy and crushed Troy, although the movie “Troy” portrays it as a good state where everyone worships Apollo. Achilles is portrayed as a god of death or as a warrior who kills everyone mercilessly. And why, after this, is Achilles considered good and glorified after the battle if he died there first and foremost? What is good about him? That he crushed Troy? So in the movie, it seems like he was on the side of evil and crushed the good, as I understood it, that these Greek Spartans were some kind of crazy barbarians who, together with Achilles, made the Trojan horse to get it inside Troy, because there were high walls there, and they killed and burned all the good peaceful people in Troy. That’s how I see it. I don’t quite get the point here, seriously, but I find it interesting to think about.