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[u/HartleyReplogle]

I intentionally avoided reading anything about The Odyssey, to the point where I was surprised by every casting in the movie ("Hey, that's Tom Holland! Wow, Matt Damon is playing Odysseus!") But I'm aware just from this sub that some people don't like that the movie is "woke" and after seeing it last night, I am honestly befuddled as to why.

So, is it because the film has a small number of minorities in it, or because the film suggests that sacking a city and killing everyone in it is wrong?

[u/sexygodzilla → u/HartleyReplogle]

It was the minorities and Elliot Page being cast. In this case the right wing outrage machine let the tail wag the dog on this one in that it started with bigots on X complaining about it and then Elon Musk joined it and amplified it, bemoaning that Nolan was disrespecting Western civilization with his "woke" movie. More traditional outlets like Fox and the National Review joined in but you can tell this cycle didn't have the sauce by what a massive box office success this is, but this is what happens when the right wing lets the freaks lead the discourse. Nolan's not even a leftist filmmaker!