Title: still disappointing
Product review: Perhaps some of your reviewers are not familiar with Homer's Odyssey, on which this movie is based. Cold Mountain tells us little about the Civil War, just as the Odyssey tells us little about the Trojan War (that was in the Iliad, the basis of another recent movie). The parallelism between CM and the Odyssey is lame and stilted, even down to some tacky Sirens! Odysseus finally arrives home to confront his wife's suitors, just as Inman does. The Odyssey tells us little about Odysseus' relation to his wife, so it is hardly surprising that the relationship between Inman and Ada in CM is a blank. It may have seemed a good idea to turn the Odyssey into CM; but the result is disappointing.
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