Christopher Govina

Let’s see if I have this right: Black Helen of Troy and Black Clytemnestra are the daughters of Leda, who is said to have snowy, alabaster skin, and a white swan (Zeus in disguise). They are literally the only black elite in all of ancient Greece… yet somehow nobody in Sparta or Troy ever notices or mentions it. And King Menelaus marries this black Helen - completely outside his race - and no one bats an eye? And Paris, a Trojan warrior, is so hot for her he steals her from her husband - and no one back home in Troy bats an eye when they see her? Same with Clytemnestra marrying the Greek king Agamemnon - ZERO cultural or racial issues? And fun fact: Clytemnestra doesn't even physically appear in the timeline of the poem, as she is ALREADY DEAD. But their brothers Castor and Pollux stay fully Greek, and again, nobody notices the mysterious racial mismatch in the same family. Here's the thing: Ancient Greeks were notoriously xenophobic about outsiders, especially when it came to upper-class marriages and preserving bloodlines. Yet in Nolan’s version, none of that matters. Just "putting black women in places they never would have been," because...MAH RACISM. Is this REALLY the story Christopher Nolan expects us to swallow?