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

a funny combination of despair and optimism,” Nolan says. “That film was almost a horror film for me. It was a very disturbing subject to live with for a couple of years: thinking nonstop about nuclear war and what humans bring to the table. I was quite glad to move out of that. But when you see ‘The Odyssey,’ you start to realize that I didn’t quite continue reading …