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I am a big fan of Nolan's style, and have enjoyed his movies. But this is where I part ways with him. I have been hoping against hope for years to get a good adaptation of the Odyssey onto the big screen, but not this.

The thing I find most offensive in this film has nothing to do with the content, because I have not seen it yet. Few or none of us have.

It is wholly in the casting of it, which was done from two different perspectives that grate on me:

The First Perspective is to tell this story from a feminist point of view (indicative simply from the casting and the roles) which I abhor as wokeness and reject out of hand. VDH explains brilliantly why this perspective is not only stupid and woke, but is wholly unnecessary.

I have read or listened to the Odyssey between five and ten times, and I love it. What an amazing story, and I admit that I have been longing for a good movie to be made from it, just as I have been longing to see someone make a good movie of "The Battle of Leyte Gulf".

But the women in the Odyssey don't need any modern feminist help. Conservatives appreciate strong, resourceful, dedicated women who aren't afraid to battle with men on their own terms, and the example of Penelope and The Suitors is a prime example of that.

She could never take them on in a battle of arms and eject them from her house, as so many execrable Hollywood productions would have her do it today, strapping on the dusty armor of Odysseus and picking up one of his rusty swords to go out and do the deed herself.

In today's Hollywood mentality, in the spirit of Tomb Raider, Penelope would overcome the armed and muscled men one-by-one as they surrounded and rushed at her, using her refined martial arts skills to kill the dozens of faster, stronger, and more physically imposing suitors who surrounded her, running one through with the sword, doing a chop to the neck of another to break his larynx, jumping out of the way as two of the suitors try to stab her, only to stab each other as she pauses with satisfaction to observe, before breaking the arm of the next one...

All the while, Telemachus is a wimpy, feminized young man, cowering in a corner, depending on his mother to protect him.

You get the idea.

But in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope fights back in the best, most tactically effective way she can by undoing the tapestry each night, delaying the day of reckoning, hoping against hope her beloved can return in time and rain death and destruction on them when the time is right...which he does. That is strength. Penelope fights as she can, with the tools she has at her disposal and with the intellect (and love for Odysseus) she possesses, she plays her part intelligently and with resolve that will win the battle in the end.

And Telemachus grows up by necessity when Odysseus returns and joins him as a man (as young men thrust into manhood by necessity must often do) and does his part in slaying the trespassers.

In the end, Penelope is not some stupid Amazon like Wonder Woman with super powers and a special lasso, but a woman any real Conservative man would have as an equal partner in life, not a husband to her in the fashion of a curly headed cuck playing video games and avoiding responsibility while a shrill harpy feminist Penelope lords over him and degrades him because he deserves it.

And the Second Perspective that this this abhorrent task of casting displays is that it was done simply as a form of obeisance to political correctness and a slavering subservience to the Oscar committee in a craven and lazy attempt to ensure all the appropriate checkboxes are ticked off to be eligible for an Oscar nomination.

I can't stand it. They might as well throw in references to Climate Change and the evils of Capitalism in there to cement it.

I have been longing for years to see a good movie adaptation of the Odyssey.

My wife wants to see it, but I absolutely will refuse to see it until I can get it for free on streaming or from a local library, and even then, only if I have a free Saturday night where all the rust has been removed from my bike chain and there is no more organizing of my tool bin to do.