But The Odyssey is on pace to be one of the biggest releases of the year. Emily Wilson, whose progressive translation of The Odyssey Nolan has referenced, wrote a blistering and much-discussed critique of the film. Indeed, the poem is now flying off the shelves thanks to Nolan’s film, introducing countless people, perhaps for the first time, to this classic work. Another fair critique of Nolan’s Odyssey is that there’s just a lot going on, not only narratively but thematically. The Odyssey assumes a moral framework that the West now takes for granted, but that came to birth through the Catholic Church’s influence.