Review: THE ODYSSEY
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The episode reviews Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey.
by Rob DiCristino “Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost.” It should come as no surprise that Christopher Nolan would choose to follow his Best Picture-winning Oppenheimer — the purest, most ideal synthesis of his lofty thematic sensibilities and blockbuster storytelling instincts — with a retelling of Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey . It’s almost too perfect, really: The storyteller of storytellers presents the story of stories, the classical text widely considered by scholars to be the foundation of all literature ever recorded by mankind. Who else but Christopher Nolan — the Thinking Man’s Studio Director, now at the height of his power — could do it justice? Nolan is our last remaining above-the-title auteur, after all, the only filmmaker whose mere involvement in a project all but guarantees both critical and commercial success. An opus like The Odyssey deserves such pomp and circumstance. It deserves to be brought to life by a master craftsman like Nolan, who’s intelligent enough to appreciate its momentous influence on the modern world and articulate enough to effectively stage it for a mainstream audience. For my friends who…
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