Universal PicturesEmily Wilson, the Oxford classicist whose translation of Homer’s Odyssey was cited by Christopher Nolan as a primary inspiration for his film, has now published a second critique of the film. In her second published analysis of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Emily Wilson — a prominent British classicist, translator, and author — doubled down on her original takedown in the London Review of Books, calling the film “emotionally empty.” Homer translator Emily Wilson calls Nolan’s The Odyssey “a Trojan horse” because it preaches kindness but shows an “emotionally empty” obsession with spectacle“Nolan’s Odyssey is itself a kind of Trojan horse,” Wilson wrote in The Atlantic in a piece titled ‘A Trojan Horse Is Supposed To Have Humans Inside It. These lessons are legible in Homer and Virgil, but are elided by Nolan’s visually stunning, emotionally empty film,” she continued. The Odyssey continues to churn out profits at the box office and has now grossed over $1 billion worldwide.