Christopher Nolan has made an Odyssey for our times – by sacrificing the delicious darkness of Homer’s epic

"There is no point trying to be a purist about a beloved classic text. Whoever reads the Odyssey, including Nolan, inescapably does so through the prism of their prejudices, informed by the conditions of their own place and time. Since the Odyssey is the result of decades, maybe centuries, of non-literate oral poets working with memory and improvisation, there’s no precise “original” place or time to return to, anyway. But what I can’t help doing is observe the choices Nolan has made and think about their consequences – because there are always divides in the road, paths not taken by any adapter."

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Christopher Nolan has made an Odyssey for our times – by sacrificing the delicious darkness of Homer’s epic | Charlotte Higgins | The Guardian