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

so than his 2014 space drama “Interstellar,” “The Odyssey” is Nolan’s most intensely emotional movie yet. After devising the Trojan horse and unleashing carnage on Troy, the melancholic Odysseus struggles to see good in the world. The film is imbued with hope and cynicism, showing a mythic hero who is also fallible.

“Coming out of ‘Oppenheimer,’ I had continue reading …