Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey Is Not What I Expected

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**Michael Knowles** (1:40)
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**SPEAKER_2** (1:57)
I think his king is coming back.

**Michael Knowles** (1:59)
No, he's not.
I saw Christopher Nolan's DEI Odyssey, and I am, I feel as though I've been on an Odyssey of my own in trying to make sense of this movie.
I'd say don't try to understand it, just feel it. The top takeaway, everyone was thinking that this thing was going to be a DEI train wreck with radical leftism for all sorts of other reasons, even though Christopher Nolan is kind of conservative and made The Dark Knight, which is a conservative movie. And so I knew going in, the movie was going to be quite good. I knew it was going to be quite good because Christopher Nolan is probably the greatest director of his generation. He's up there. And this is what really makes me a man of sorrows and troubles. So it makes me like Odysseus. I've been on this journey making sense of the movie because the thing that's most annoying is that Christopher Nolan is so good that he can get away with a lot of this stuff.
All the DEI stuff that you thought was in there, it really is in there. And in some ways, the meaning of it is even worse than you thought it might be.
But it's still a pretty good movie and I would encourage you to go see it.
Because he's that good. So what is actually going on here? Right off the top, let's go to the supposedly woken aspect of it from the beginning, that Ellen Page is playing a man, this trans identifying guy is playing a man, and not just a man, but Achilles, the greatest warrior ever. You've got this diminutive trans woman playing Achilles, that's crazy, right? She's not really playing Achilles, she's playing this character Sinon, which tells you a lot about what Christopher Nolan's doing here in the movie. Now, part of the reason maybe there was that rumor that she was playing Achilles is that Sinon does not really appear in The Odyssey. Sinon doesn't appear in Homer's Odyssey, he doesn't appear in Homer's Iliad, he appears in Virgil's Aeneid, and he appears in Dante's Divine Comedy, and he appears in Shakespeare even. But Sinon is this figure from the Trojan War who's not in the source material here, so you realize Nolan is leaning into a tradition that is not only circumscribed by Homer's text, okay. And the role that he gives to Sinon in his movie is in part the role held by Achilles, because there's this famous scene in the poem, The Odyssey, where Odysseus goes down to Hades and he speaks to Achilles, and that is replaced in this movie with Sinon. And so right off the bat, that's like the wokest thing, right? You have this tranny guy playing a character that's not even actually in the original poem. However, there's a little trickery here. And I think this is the theme, cleverness, deception, trickery. That's the whole theme, not just of the poem, but of even how we should be thinking about this movie. Because Sinon is a figure of deceit. Sinon tricks the Trojans into letting the Trojan horse into the city, which ends up destroying the city. Sinon in Dante's Divine Comedy is put down in one of the deepest parts of hell with the fraudsters, almost at the very bottom of hell with the fraudsters, because he uses his words for deceit and he peddles falsehoods. So you say, hold on, wait, you cast the trans-identifying actress?