We review Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and discuss:What works in Nolan’s Odyssey and what doesn’t, and why it succeeds, even where it departs from Homer. Roel Konijnendijk: That’s why he’s her hero, her champion. Justin McIntosh: He wasn’t the joyful, tear-in-his-eye, a-cup-for-everyone-who-comes-to-his-house, red-haired, happy-go-lucky guy they depict in the Odyssey, that’s for sure, when Telemachus shows up. But that’s not the Odyssey version — that’s the fifth-century BC version. It always struck me that these gods are just playing, and they don’t really care — you’re just a pet insect to them.