AdvertisementIt is worth noting, however, that the criticisms of Nolan’s creative choices in this movie aren’t limited to the political right. In The Odyssey, which Emily Wilson is kind enough to remind people is not “this movie,” Odysseus and his men encounter a massive giant cyclops named Polyphemus. The omission of Odysseus’s hubris as the reason for his Odyssey is important, and interestingly something upon which Emily Wilson and I agree. If there were one central theme of The Odyssey that could be defined, it is the concept of nostos. He has his traumatized hero, who strangely endures shame but never sought glory (as is attested by Emily Wilson), get back home to Greece.