What ‘The Odyssey’ Gets Right and Wrong About Homer — and Also, Who Cares?

Film adaptations of written works rarely achieve perfect duplication, as seen with Homer's The Odyssey. In a Screen Talk episode, IndieWire Craft Editor Sarah Shachat discusses Homeric history and the specific ways Christopher Nolan modifies the original epic poem. Nolan bends the narrative to construct a new story focusing on the decline of civilization, highlighting the divergence between the classical source material and the director's modern cinematic vision of the ancient Greek tale.