Christopher Nolan couldn’t escape ‘despair.’ So he made ‘The Odyssey.’

ways, the film bears a striking resemblance to Martin Scorsese’s 1988 masterpiece “The Last Temptation of Christ,” a massively polarizing biblical retelling that found Jesus grappling with guilt and resentment much like Odysseus.

“We screened a few different films in preproduction, and that one in particular we got a print of,” Nolan says. “It’s a stunning continue reading …