The right-wing backlash to The Odyssey is about portraying civilization as a whites-only project.

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was always going to inspire – and enrage – fans. That’s what you get when you take Homer’s words and make them into a blockbuster in Trump times.

Some right-wing critics have boosted an AI-generated version of Homer’s “Odyssey” as an alternative to Nolan’s blockbuster. Its director said that’s not what he set out to make.

Nolan’s film confronts the betrayal of the West’s own values.

Critics blasted Nolan's revisions. But Nolan didn’t merely adapt the Odyssey for our age, he made a movie indicting him and, if implicitly, Hollywood.

The right-wing backlash to The Odyssey is about portraying civilization as a whites-only project.