The Odyssey Movie Review (Episode 231)

Caleb and Michael both saw the film. This is a proper review.

Caleb and Michael share what they think and work through what lands and what doesn’t.

Don’t worry this is our last bit of Odyssey content for sometime.

(00:00) Introduction: A Proper Review of Nolan’s Odyssey

(03:30) Ranking Nolan’s Films

(08:15) Zeus’s Law and Odysseus’s Guilt

(13:45) An American Odyssey

(19:00) A Fair Fight: Softening the Slaughter

(20:50) The Horror of Circe, the Cyclops, and Scylla

(23:50) Downplaying the Gods: The Naturalist Reading

(27:40) The Hero Who Doesn’t Shirk Responsibility

(30:40) What’s Lost: Nausicaa and the Choice of Immortality

(36:20) The Calypso Problem: Therapy-Speak in the Bronze Age

(40:30) Athena as a Figment

(43:40) Why Zeus’s Law Doesn’t Cohere

(46:20) Clean Hands, Batman, and Moral Purity

(50:00) The Ending: Exile, Retirement, and the Next Generation

(55:10) Where Nolan Is More Stoic Than Homer

(56:00) Final Verdict: Watch It and Judge for Yourself

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