THE FUSE

For as long as humans have had spoken language, we have told stories, and for only a bit shorter than that, we’ve been telling one in particular: The Odyssey. It would please the shit outta Homer to know his tale (as dubious as it is to ascribe this epic to a single source) still has the power to captivate audiences so many milennia after its first uttering. So powerful and legendary is his poem that it has attracted the attention of one of our most celebrated living directors, and with a 98 percent certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it seems Christopher Nolan’s treatment of The Odyssey is one worthy of a tale that is quite literally the foundational text of western storytelling.