Nolan’s The Odyssey: Kill the Gods, Save the Myth

Nolan’s The Odyssey: Kill the Gods, Save the Myth

British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey strips Homer of his gods and frames its monsters as trauma and lotus-fed delusion. Far from betraying the poem, this earthly retelling belongs to a 2,000-year tradition of rationalizing myth. By presenting monsters as...