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What Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Reveals About the Adaptable Nature of Myth
Nolan’s version places viewers inside Odysseus’s memory loss and war trauma, recasting the hero as a vulnerable figure rather than a controlling narrator.
This article contains spoilers for Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey.’ Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has sparked renewed interest in one of the world’s oldest and most enduring stories — and it has sparked controversy about whether or not the film tells the story in the right way. But what if we step back and think about how the adaptable nature of myth makes questions of right and wrong interpretations more complex? As a professor of Greek and…