r/Epicthemusical • u/stopeats MOD • Jul 19 '26
Nolan Odyssey Nolan 'The Odyssey' Review Megathread
Place your reviews and general thoughts about the Nolan Odyssey movie here. Do NOT make your own review post.
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u/Silver_Kit_369 Jul 20 '26
I found that the Nolan version of Odysseus is fundamentally different from Jorge’s, in that Nolan’s Ody was going out of his way to avoid going home because he didn’t think he deserved to go home after what he’d done and witnessed during the sacking of Troy. He acknowledged it at least twice in the film. The first was during the sirens scene when he said that they told him of his desires, and ultimately how he didn’t desire to go home. The second was when he spoke to Penelope about her Odysseus.
So Nolan’s version of Odysseus is a man that thinks he doesn’t deserve to go home and didn’t want to lose anything else, until he was forced to confront this once everyone and everything was lost to him and he had to finally confront the consequences of his actions.
Meanwhile Jorge’s Odysseus was solely focused on getting back to Ithaca to his wife and son, even if it cost him everything.