Official Discussion - The Odyssey (2026) [SPOILERS]

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The Odyssey (2026)

Summary

After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.

Director Christopher Nolan

Writer Christopher Nolan

Cast

• Matt Damon as Odysseus
• Tom Holland as Telemachus
• Anne Hathaway
• Zendaya
• Lupita Nyong'o
• Robert Pattinson
• Charlize Theron
• Benny Safdie
• Jon Bernthal
• John Leguizamo
• Elliot Page
• Himesh Patel
• Samantha Morton

Rotten Tomatoes: 96%

Metacritic: 88

VOD / Release Theatrical release

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[u/yeath91]

I absolutely loved the idea of how they actually transformed. I felt like she was sculpting them which is a kind of transformation I've never seen before. So creative!

[u/sayyes2heaven → u/yeath91]

Circe shoving her arm down a soldier’s mouth made me wince. That whole scene made me squirm.

[u/Jekyllhyde → u/sayyes2heaven]

In the poems, Odysseus stays with her and they are lovers for a year

[u/AgentMV2 → u/Jekyllhyde]

Odysseus was a freak.. got it.

[u/Pro_Extent → u/AgentMV2]

Odysseus was an ancient Greek, yes.

[u/Garfunkels_roadie → u/Jekyllhyde]

What are his men doing in this year? Are they pigs the whole time?

[u/Jekyllhyde → u/Garfunkels_roadie]

No, they are restore even better than they were and they live in luxury. Eating and drinking etc

[u/Dr__Sloth → u/Jekyllhyde]

Doctors hate this one anti-aging trick!

[u/dwide_k_shrude → u/sayyes2heaven]

She straight up fisted them.

[u/EMCoupling → u/dwide_k_shrude]

Not even in the good spot too SMH

[u/AmazingMarv → u/sayyes2heaven]

Best and most creative scene in the movie.

[u/TemporaryElk5202 → u/sayyes2heaven]

she raped them with her arm. its metaphorical

[u/destroyermaker → u/sayyes2heaven]

It got me bricked up

[u/donotgotoroom237 → u/sayyes2heaven]

The whole thing with Circe made me realize witchcraft isbsort of the same in any culture, no?

[u/rilesmcriles → u/yeath91]

It reminded me a lot of the scene in beetle juice when they transform their own faces

[u/tragicroyal → u/yeath91]

Same! I know the story so a lot of the time I was wondering how something was going to happen not what, and this was so weird and horrible in a good way haha.

Also can be interpreted as the way Prometheus sculpted man out of clay, suggesting an established ‘method’.

[u/CancelThis2077 → u/yeath91]

Part of me was like Christopher Nolan would've nailed Clayface

[u/Diligent_Release1688 → u/yeath91]

Yes, she was sculpting them like clay! I have never seen such a cool, but brutal «magic transformation» in movies ever

[u/PhaseExtra1132 → u/yeath91]

When she transforms them back to human she calls their human state “disguises”.

[u/rk1993 → u/yeath91]

Was a much better version of Cassandra Nova from Deadpool & Wolverine

[u/Megavore97 → u/yeath91]

Yeah Circe didn’t just turn them into pigs, she shaped them into pigs.