The Odyssey is proof that politics makes a person miserable

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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is expected very soon to do something remarkable for a three-hour, R-rated, sword-and-sandal epic with dialogue drawn from 3,000 years ago: cross the $1 billion mark.

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