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The Odyssey According to Nolan
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- Jul 24, 2026
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Summary
I thought that this summer audiences would rush to the bookstores to read Homer’s work, instead of splitting hairs between IMAX and regular movie theaters, both populated by popcorn munchers and soft drink slurpers, which I avoid by default. I confess I have lost count of the years I’ve avoided a totally outdated economic exploitation model, which entails sitting in the dark with hundreds of strangers who do not keep the required silence, despite the imposing sound. And of course, they plan to stuff themselves with the same decorum as a capon. That being said, I was once a good moviegoer, back when computer technology was in its infancy and monitors had fluorescent colors. But as soon as I could clearly see the skin pores on a monitor and the sound went beyond stereo to multichannel, the lack of civility from the audience in movie theaters finally convinced me not to go back. From the point of view of the British film director Christopher Nolan, I am wrong. And yes, I probably should have watched his impressive Oppenheimer in an IMAX theater. Because on a 27-inch 4K monitor, the atomic bomb didn’t look big enough. But on a laptop with earbuds it is way worse. And on an iPhone, simply ridiculous. Nolan has taken his camera to the Mediterranean locations where the Homeric epic is based, a visual luxury for those who do not know them. Or if they have been to these shores, it was to ignore history and focus exclusively on their selfies with Italian gelato and cool tans, eating pasta and asking the waiter, completely out of place, for gravy. Odysseus’ nautical tale, getting lost in treacherous seas, has happened to many people throughout the centuries. In fact, nowadays, the mafias smuggling African immigrants in makeshift boats to Europe subject them to a real odyssey that…