You Can't Go Home Again: Nolan's Odyssey and the Dilemma of Modernity | MTS #15

Podcast: Monitoring the Situation · Steve Skojec & Kale Zelden

Opublikowano: 2026-07-23

Steve and Kale discuss Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" and try to work out why the story landed with such unexpected force. Kale comes at the film as a longtime teacher of Homer. Steve comes at it as someone who had never read Homer's original poem and encountered the story first through Nolan's version. The result is a wide-ranging conversation about adaptation, myth, war, guilt, hospitality, the longing for home, and why a 3,000-year-old story still seems to know exactly where modern people hurt. They talk about Odysseus as a trickster versus Odysseus as a wounded...