In one of the most iconic scenes in the 2008 movie "The Dark Knight," the Joker eloquently expresses his belief in the darker duality of human nature: "Their morals, their code, it’s a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They’re only as good as the world allows them to be. I’ll show you. When the chips are down, these civilized people, they’ll eat each other." Seen in this context, Christopher Nolan’s observation in a 2005 interview with Box Office Mojo that he does not think solely in terms of ‘darkness and light’ but also in terms of ‘bleakness and richness’ is relevant. Throughout the thematic architecture of The Dark Knight Trilogy and his latest, "The Odyssey," Nolan, concerned with the impulses and paradoxes of human nature, depicts the world as it is, in its unvarnished glory and strange majesty: grim, complex, but never beyond redemption. What Nolan gives us is a complex tapestry of human action: we find traces of richness with even the darkest figures, while shades of bleakness inevitably intrude upon the most virtuous characters. In the end, Nol