In The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan worries the end of politeness will destroy civilisation. I fear he’s right | Joseph Earp
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- Guardian International·2h agoChristopher Nolan has made an Odyssey for our times – by sacrificing the delicious darkness of Homer's epic | Charlotte Higgins
There’s no denying the power of the film on the big screen. But how far should modern moral sensibilities influence adaptations of classics? Everyone knows how dumb it is to be this person: the one who mourns the film adaptation of a favourite text because it misses out this…
Read at Guardian International → - Guardian UK·16h agoIn The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan worries the end of politeness will destroy civilisation. I fear he’s right | Joseph Earp
Since I saw the movie, I have found it difficult not to see Trojan horses everywhere. We live now in a state of perpetual distrustfulness Prior to the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, I’m not sure many of us would have conceived of the Trojan Horse as a kind of…
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