《奥德赛》：诺兰的史诗新篇

THE ODYSSEY IS the definition of epic. The word comes from the Ancient Greek epikos, an adjective used to describe a long narrative, prophecy, proverb or heroic verse. All such interpretations could describe Homer’s vast 8th-century BC poem, a masterwork of Greek mythology, about a bloke just trying to get home — the Planes, Trains And Automobiles of the Bronze Age, if you will. It is a 12,000-line, 24-book, 3,000-year-old piece of literature, a journey of gods and monsters, spanning many years, across seas and islands, over warring lands and into the underworld itself. Fairly ambitious, then. …