A Perennial Digression

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Kaos & Those About to Die

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David Armstrong
Sep 15, 2024
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There are a lot of ways to talk about Kaos just the same way there are a lot of ways to talk about Greek mythology in general. The show has, first of all, something of an adult version of the schtick inherent to Percy Jackson, in that it attempts to modernize Greek myth with the aesthetics of the 21st century. But unlike Percy, which also transfers the gods to the American spiritual landscape, Kaos keeps the human action centered on an imagined modern Krete, where President Minos rules, Orpheus is a pop star, and Dionysus is the ultimate bisexual party boy. This way of portraying myth in film has something to commend it the same way as does the more Shakespearean, mythohistorical version: it allows the audience to make easier connections with what is otherwise an alien kosmos.

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