Okay, So It Isn’t Brilliant, But..

A recent project required me to watch scenes from the movie Troy over and over and over again. I would never claim that this film was anything but a good Hollywood ride, but I was struck by the opening statement:

Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: Will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?