The Odyssey Is 2,700 Years Old, but Christopher Nolan Still Finds a Way to End It With a Plot Twist - Slate Magazine

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You don’t usually have to issue a spoiler warning for an adaptation of a 2,700-year-old text, but this article really does contain spoilers for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey . We all know that Matt Damon’s Odysseus eventually makes it home to Ithaca, and that along the way he will encounter a one-eyed monster, a group of women with irresistible voices, and a lady who turns men into pigs. But Nolan’s Odysseus isn’t just a conquering hero fighting to reclaim his kingdom and rejoin his family; he’s also a traumatized veteran of a bloody and ignoble war, burdened by a particular and personal form of guilt. And he may not want to go home at all.