THE ODYSSEY — WHY DOES ODYSSEUS WANT TO GO HOME?
After Troy, after the monsters, after the gods, after temptation, shipwreck, glory, suffering, and years of wandering, Odysseus wants one thing.
He wants to go home.
But why?
In this episode of The Common Room at the Movies, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey sends us back nearly three thousand years to one of the oldest and strangest questions in Western storytelling: What makes home worth returning to?
Odysseus has seen wonders. He has crossed impossible seas. He has encountered monsters and enchantments and been offered things ordinary human beings can scarcely imagine.
And still he wants…
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