There is a lot of anticipation – much of it negative, I’m afraid – regarding Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film adaptation of Homer’s saga The Odyssey.
I hope that the film, Ulysses, manages somehow to include the story of the landing of Ulysses and his men in the land of the Lotus Eaters, a kind of Greek hippie commune where the natives are essentially stoned all day on the fruit of the lotus plant. I hope it does, because this little episode in the saga has so much to say to our society.
When they land in the region of the Lotus Eaters, Ulysses sends three men ahead of him to explore the land. However, they unfortunately fall in with the Lotus Eaters and:
