They also criticize Nolan from turn Odysseus into a PTSD man filled with regret rather than someone trying to get home and take charge and have his family back. Why? Because love of home and family and wanting to have wealth or power are evil in Hollywood.
I’ve never seen a Nolan film so I don’t have a dog in this fight other than I like SOME movies and am tired of Hollywood shoving demented values down my throat.
Nothing is known of Homer’s biography. However IMHO judging from his poignant descriptions of combat , wounds and arms suspect he himself was a veteran who fought long, hard and somehow survived. As demonstrated ever since whether it was French soldiers making their way back to their villages from Siberia, Civil war vererans who tried to renter civilian life or millions of German, Russian, British, Italian, French, Japanese, Chinese and American veterans of the unprecedented 20th century wars “retuning home” and what it had become is not a simple, stright line process. Believe Homer, understood war and its aftermath, was writing about his and his fellow soldiers experiences which sadly are timeless. As long as there are wars the Illiad and the Odyssey contain insights and truths that will keep them meaningful and relevant.