It’s been a few months since Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey hit cinemas, but my husband said something interesting that stuck with me when we emerged from our local screening: “Nolan really likes exploring the idea of lost time.”
When I asked what he meant, he mentioned the wave planet sequence in Interstellar – which is coincidentally one of my all time favourite scenes and inspired elements of my own novel – as well as the film Inception. I realised he was right: both movies really do play with the emotional fallout of losing time, this idea that you might waste swathes of your life you can never reclaim and how you do or don’t come to terms with that.
This made me curious how many of Christopher Nolan’s films play with this idea, so I had a look at his filmography. I found six worth taking a look at.
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