And while he has been warned and tricked and occasionally even guided by the gods, he finds—as Nolan’s protagonists often do—that they are cold and distant. The responsibility to fix what is broken is his, not fate’s. Man is alone in an uncaring universe, but he can also be the master of his own fate. This is Nolan’s worldview, his Odyssey, as much as it is Homer’s.
— Read on reason.com/2026/07/17/with-the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-earns-his-place-as-hollywoods-great-liberal-humanist/

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