
The Pop Culture Contrarian
'The Odyssey' — Is it a Trojan Horse?
Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' is a Trojan horse in more ways than we realized.
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Christopher Nolan's big-budget adaptation of 'The Odyssey' is being hailed as a masterpiece while also being slammed as a woke in some circles. We ask a different question: is this movie actually a Trojan horse? Thomas, Sterling, and Andrew dig into Nolan's casting choices, the "Zeus's law" of Xenia, the Bronze Age collapse, and whether this film is quietly mocking the very ideology it appears to obey.
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