Christopher Nolan's Odyssey is not just shallow, it misses the point, philosopher of ethics Kathryn Lawson says.
Using Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas and Simone Weil — three thinkers who turned to Homer to make sense of atrocity after the World Wars — Lawson argues that by giving Odysseus a conscience, Nolan made a dangerous mistake.

Homer's Odysseus feels no guilt for his violence which serves as a warning that power rarely recognises its own cruelty and needs something external to stop it.

By erasing that for a guilt-ridden hero, Nolan cuts the story’s ethical depth and leaves us with the fantasy that the powerful will change themselves once they understand what they've done.
Real history, Lawson argues, suggests otherwise.

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