Reading about mythology I thought of this. Parthenope was one of the sirens who failed to enchant Odysseus. Devastated by her failure, she drowned herself, and her body washed ashore near Naples, which was later named after her. What if Sorrentino intentionally reverses the traditional roles to give Parthenope the intellectual and exploratory qualities of Odysseus, while Raimondo embodies the doomed siren, Parthenope, who succumbs to the sea?
During the movie, Parthenope, like Odysseus, is on a journey—not a physical…
