I love how now in America getting even one of the shittier full time jobs requires working through a network of secrets, favors, and nepotism that makes Soviet blat look like a well oiled meritocracy by comparison
I have a ton of respect for Wilson's work but I get the impression she neither watches nor enjoys movies.
Which is fine, it just means she's a bit out of her wheelhouse here. Most of the things she calls out the movie for not addressing are actually addressed, just not in
I’ve spent my share of time defending Wilson as a scholar, but I can’t say quite as much for her film criticism. I don’t know how anyone leaves the theatre believing ‘there are no gods’ just because they weren’t depicted in person.
I mean, whatever you think of Nolan’s film, isn’t this analysis just wrong? Nolan obviously has a lot to say about war, history, memory, and time—it’s just not the same as what Homer says about these things. I just feel like this paragraph is trying too hard to land a zinger.
I’m very disappointed that Emily Wilson falls into the trap so many fans of a written work fall into: judging the adaptation for what they wish it were rather than for what it is. At no point does she try to understand the intentions of Nolan, she’s just frustrated that she didn’t get the adaptation she had imagined.