I want 

to see

“The Odyssey”,

the latest

Nolan

dark knight

movie,

as I’m 

intrigued

by the

“Oppenheimer”

theory

that this is

relatively

similar

to the 

familiar

journeys

of Batman

and Oppie,

contemplating

devastating

a city,

whether

Gotham,

or Nagasaki,

or Troy.

Our coy

hero,

will go

far

to destroy

the enemy

and then

get lost

in his

head

after 

he lead

a successful

mission.

Racked

with guilt

over what

he built,

the damage

that followed

hollowed

him 

out.

And then

there’s

Joyce’s

choices

for 

Ulysses,

who does 

not sail

the high

seas,

but whose

sojourn

within

Dublin

is a modern

interpretation

of Homer’s

epic poem

of going

home.

Relationships,

wandering,

battles,

and pondering,

Odysseus,

the original

Homeric

heroic

individual,

is the prime

example

of what

Joseph Campbell

called,

“The Hero

With 

A Thousand

Faces”.

With Batman-

“The Dark Knight”,

“Oppenheimer”,

and now

“The Odyssey”,

Christopher Nolan

has provided

a sort of 

trilogy;

well, 3

movies

including

one biopic

that seems

to stick

to the script

about

a man who

makes us

ask,

“Who is

a hero?”

In the 

modern 

sensibility,

the one 

who questions

and takes

responsibility,

no matter

how many

homes

he’s got.