Epic review

Re Kenneth Turan’s review of “Troy” (“Homer’s Heroes,” May 14): As usual, Turan criticizes what is absent from a film rather than dealing squarely and honestly with what is in the film. I am a veteran of reading Homer’s “Iliad,” and it did not bother me one bit that the gods from the tale didn’t show up to turn the tides of battles or that all the politics of Helen’s “abduction” were not thoroughly hashed out.

I was swept away by a story that I fully expected to take some liberties with the original and was even delighted with some of the inventions that the writers chose to put into place. Turan’s whining about these inventions smacks of elitism.

Edward Lomax

Rancho Cucamonga