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 […] ...