Christopher Nolan has made an Odyssey for our times – by sacrificing the delicious darkness of Homer's epic | Charlotte Higgins

There’s no denying the power of the film on the big screen. But how far should modern moral sensibilities influence adaptations of classics?Everyone knows how dumb it is to be this person: the one who mourns the film adaptation of a favourite text because it misses out this scene

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