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You Can't Go Home Again: Nolan's Odyssey and the Dilemma of Modernity | MTS #15
Steve and Kale discuss Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" and try to work out why the story landed with such unexpected force.
Kale comes at the film as a longtime teacher of Homer. Steve comes at it as someone who had never read Homer's original poem and encountered the story first through Nolan's version. The result is a wide-ranging conversation about adaptation, myth, war, guilt, hospitality, the longing for home, and why a 3,000-year-old story still seems to know exactly where modern people hurt.
They talk about Odysseus as a trickster versus Odysseus as a wounded modern hero, Penelope…
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