Somebody should make a movie about the actual Odyssey, instead of a movie about the West's Achilles heel, its introspective conscience since the defeat of Athens in 404 BC, the volume on which was turned up to 11 by Christianity.
Nothing defines the West like its failure of nerve.
Garrett Exner, Providence
... [Christopher Nolan] never sought to make a film straightforwardly depicting Odysseus’s Late Bronze Age journey around the Mediterranean.
... In the Homeric epic, Odysseus is not troubled by the sack of Troy. He
understands it as a glorious victory. Yet Nolan chooses to show the sack
of Troy as a descent into violence and hate, culminating in the
desecration of Athena’s temple and even the beheading of Athena herself.
Instead of being proud of sacking Troy, these acts inspire severe
post-traumatic stress and moral injury in Odysseus. This is not a
bastardization of The Odyssey, but a thoughtful update in light of the Christian morality that has come to define the West.
Through the film Nolan clarifies this through the use of Christian themes . . ..
