The Haunting Music in the ‘Odyssey’ Siren Scene Has Ancient Roots

That tune has been going around in my head a lot since seeing the film. It’s ancient and sorrowful, so feels like mourning for the things that have been lost to time.

So it simultaneously captures the emotional impact of several other Nolan films (especially Inception and Interstellar), the now-fragmentary time that the Odyssey comes from, and personal loss of people that are gone and time that can’t be recaptured.

I’m *so* glad they didn’t opt for a traditional score, the film gets a lot of extra credit from me for recreating the aulos to evoke the period rather than just what’s expected of period movies.