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Friday essay: I’ve been reading The Odyssey my whole life. Nolan’s film version is exhilarating – but not perfect
I first read The Odyssey during the summer holidays when I was 15 years old. Parked under the shade of the mulberry tree in our Brisbane backyard, I would read, grab a few mulberries, then read some more, my fingers sometimes staining the pages dark purple. It was a secondhand Penguin Classics edition, translated by E.V. Rieu, its yellowing paper and creased spine, to my teenage eyes, somehow as ancient as the work itself.
Every time I read the Homeric epithet “wine-dark sea” – one of the repeated formulas that bear the imprint of the epic’s oral beginnings, such as “dawn, fresh and rosy-fingered” and “Zeus the thunderer” – I’d feel as though my purple fingerprints had somehow become part of the poem.
There’s no denying it – Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey might be one of the greatest movies of all time
Review: The night before I was set to watch The Odyssey, I had a dream that I was on set with Christopher Nolan. When I woke up at 2am, I couldn’t get back to sleep, lying there like a kid on Christmas Eve.
All this to say, I was clearly excited to see the movie, and my expectations were high. But not only did The Odyssey meet my expectations, it far exceeded them.
Matt Damon stars in the film as Odysseus. The story follows his journey home after the Trojan War. Universal Studios
Writing this review is one of the more difficult things I’ve done in my career, simply because The Odyssey left me speechless.
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