Will the Cinema God Forgive Nolan?

I held off on seeing The Odyssey. I wasn’t sure why. Maybe I was flinching from the thunder of publicity — crammed with promises of spectacle, the unspeakable and the momentous, before the bogus and the bombast set in. Respectable newspapers were sounding off about the cinematic tradition of Homer, and the introspection of Christopher Nolan. So I held back (as Odysseus might have done).