Do you belive that Opedius is

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Pier Paolo Pasolini created a film based on the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. This film is considered one of the finest renderings of a classical Greek subject that the cinema has ever produced. Pasolini has in this film rearranged the flow of events, so that they follow the chronological order. The story starts with the shepherd carrying a child to the desert, while in the original myth from Sophocles the point of departure is different; the messenger come to ask Oedipus for help in saving the dying city. Furthermore Pasolini adds a modern prologue and epilogue, which are "brilliantly lyrical and charged with great intensity of personal feeling." Pasolini's "Oedipus Rex" may be taken to be as much about Pasolini himself as about Sophocles' hero. According to Pasolini this film is the most autobiographical of all his creation. One of Pasolini's claims about his film was that the little boy of the prologue is himself, the boy's father is his father, and the mother is his own mother. "Oedipus is born into circumstances of Pasolini's childhood, with his parents clothes in the film inspired by photographs of Pasolini's parents."

Pasolini tried to create his own form of Oedipus; he wanted to avoid any connections that the audience c

From another prospective, Pasolini present us Oedipus as a person who had a dream at the age of "20" and wanted to discover what this dream was all about, so he leaves home and goes to find out his destiny, talk to oracle. Oedipus, once learning the horrible faith he has been destined to (kill father and sleep with mother), decides not to go "home to Corint". He takes the road that would take him as far away from "home" possible, he is turning around with closed eyes every time he needs to choose the road he is going to take next. He is repressing self - knowledge. This differs from Sophocles because he takes more responsibility and actually searches for his identity there, while here he runs from his identity. With this gesture, Pasolini indicates that Oedipus doesn't really want to face the reality. Reality issue is obviously one of the problems of Oedipus character, he knew his destiny and still he was not able to put 2 and 2 together in realizing that Jokasta is old enough to be his mother. Along the way, Pasolini has added part into his film which wasn't a part of the book, he shows us Oedipus, coming to "one city" where the young women was given to him. Oedipus runs from the bare breasted girl due to his fear of conventional sex with her. Again indicated by Pasolini is the rejection of self-knowledge. Oedipus shows no interests of being with this woman. The way this could be understood is that Oedipus had no chance of avoiding his destiny, something more powerful than human-power itself had to be driving him. Understanding this gesture right, I would have to say that Oedipus was indeed an innocent individual, who was maybe "blinded to see" but than again what difference would it ma

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