Christopher Nolan’s latest movie takes him back nearly 3,000 years, to Greek writer Homer’s epic poem Odyssey. Nolan’s The Odyssey is an immersive, contemporary adaptation of a text that has influenced storytelling in all forms through the centuries.
It’s taken the warrior Odysseus (Matt Damon) a decade to win the Trojan War for the king Agamemnon. Odysseus’s brilliant ruse of the Trojan Horse, the sacred offering in whose belly were hidden Odysseus and his men waiting to sack Troy, turned the tide in their favour. Others have returned from the carnage, but not Odysseus.
His kingdom Ithaca has fallen into disarray in his absence. His wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway), their son Telemachus (Tom Holland) and their servant Eumaeus (John Leguizamo) cling to the hope that Odysseus will return.
Penelope is refusing to remarry any one of the loutish nobles who have overrun her palace and ridicule the untested Telemachus. Led by Antinous (Robert Pattinson), the men wait for Penelope to yield. Other men in Nolan’s screenplay too ignore the desires of women, adding a layer of re-gendering to a monomythical tale of one man’s travails.
Blown off course by bad weather, questionable choices and hubris, Odysseus is adrift in more ways than one. His homeward voyage is turning out to be...
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