An Odysseus for our age

“Let’s go home,” Matt Damon says brusquely, playing an exhausted Odysseus. Damon’s a good actor, and that moment in previews got me pumped for the movie. It’s a punchy, understated framing of the Odyssey: A perilous journey home from a lengthy and disastrous home.

But that’s not a scene from Homer’s Odyssey. I’m not saying “let’s go home,” is a loose continue reading …