Odysseus: The man and his monsters in a world in decline - Vatican News
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Andrea Monda, Editor-in-Chief of L'Osservatore Romano, reflects on Christopher Nolan's film The Odyssey. In Nolan's retelling, Odysseus appears not as a great hero but as a tormented man struggling against his own bestial nature and surrounded by monsters, both external and internal. The film contrasts Agamemnon's rule of force with the law of Zeus, a principle of respect and hospitality, and draws a painful parallel to a world in decline, marked by war and rejected hospitality. Odysseus' final voyage, with Penelope, becomes an act of atonement and healing, pointing toward hope.