This F**king Play Is About Us: ‘The Odyssey’ Isn’t “Woke,” It’s a Damning Mirror

This F**king Play Is About Us: ‘The Odyssey’ Isn’t “Woke,” It’s a Damning Mirror

This discussion contains extensive spoilers for The Odyssey.Much like Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, The Odyssey is a blockbuster about morality. That’s a rare combination. So often, we treat popcorn cinema as a time to set aside ethical nuance: good guys fight bad guys, good guys win, end of story.In Nolan’s hands, The Odyssey is not about a warrior trying to find his way home; it’s about a man reckoning with a tear in the social fabric, one …

Review of The Odyssey

The trouble with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey starts with the casting of Matt Damon as Odysseus. True, this may not be as egregiously bad as John Wayne as Genghis Kahn in the 1956 movie The Conqueror — a choice so notorious that it inspired the title for a book about ill-advised casting, Damien Bona’s Starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan: Hollywood’s All-Time Worst Casting Blunders (1996) — but did Nolan really wish us to associate the Homeric…

Why I Won’t See The Odyssey

There was a time when I considered a new Christopher Nolan film “must-see” viewing. I’m a huge fan of Inception, Interstellar, and Dark Knight. Heck, I’m even one of the few people who didn’t think Tenet was awful. In an era in which most movies result in forgettable moments, Nolan films have lasting impact. But I won’t be watching Nolan’s most recent movie, The Odyssey, starring Matt Damon… Source

The Agony of The Odyssey

Christopher Nolan’s long, woke adaptation of “The Odyssey” discards Homer’s timeless messages about the nature of courage and hubris, duty and ambition, fate and resignation, heroism and triumph.

'The Odyssey' Is Woke and Worse

Critical review of Nolan's 'The Odyssey' highlights woke casting and lackluster storytelling.

REVIEW: The Odyssey is a Painfully Dull Journey Home That Turns Adaptation into Regression

Over the past two weeks, to prepare for this review, I’ve made a point of becoming something of a student of The Odyssey. I read Homer’s poem, watched more than nine hours of previous adaptations of the story (right up to the adaption for the Wishbone show), and read Emily Wilson’s translation—the version Christopher Nolan has cited as an inspiration for his film. After spending that time immersed in one of Western literature’s greatest epics, I…