After the commercial (and critical) triumph that Christopher Nolan enjoyed with Oppenheimer, which was as colossal as it was unlikely-seeming, there was quite some buzz about what project Nolan would take up next.
I suspect few expected that the next Nolan movie would be an adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey--the actual production of which has been confirmed by a much-publicized "first look" this past week.
Frankly I'm a bit disappointed by the revelation. With Oppenheimer Nolan used a weight that very few artists within Hollywood have to make a very serious movie about serious subjects (Big Science, nuclear war, the Anti-Communist hysteria and political persecution of the Cold War period) in a way we don't see much these days, in part because any noticing that there is such a thing as society and that it may not be perfect is so little tolerated--and one might have hoped that he would use his even stronger position after making the movie to do so again.
However, if at this point so little has been said about the Odyssey movie that the interested have little to do but discuss Matt Damon's anachronistic-looking helmet, in choosing to make this particular movie Nolan can seem to be turning away from that kind of challenge, perhaps retreating into the "safer" territory he has so long occupied, of myth and psycho-babble (we got plenty of that with Batman, and Inception), and history-as-spectacle, Ridley Scott-style (such as we had with Dunkirk).
For the record I hope to be wrong about that.
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