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Film review: Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY
Nolan's Homeric adventure attempts to give mythology a sense of moral consequence.
Matt Damon and Zendaya in "The Odyssey" Universal Pictures By every normal standard of measurement, Christopher Nolan’s movies should not be among the most successful blockbusters in cinema history. At heart, Nolan is a philosopher, using his genre films as heady explorations of moral consequences, the nature of time and reality, and who we should honor as heroes.
His movies, conventionally satisfying though they may often be, actually require an audience to think; even the logo for his production company, Syncopy, is a maze.
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