Al Noudj Khourafah Majmoua'At Kharbashat Sarah | Sarah Andersen

We are in pre-war fascist Italy, where a young couple gives birth to a child that the father is jealous of, and suddenly the scene moves to antiquity where the child is carried on a stick like a ram to be killed in the wild. But he is rescued, and is called Oedipus, and is meant for the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day, Oedipus is told a wonderful prophecy: He is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Terrified at this, he flees from Corinth, thinking he is fleeing from his real parents.
This scenario represents Pasolini's attempt to film -cinematically - the play written by Sophocles and represented more than four hundred years BC by the myth of Oedipus in Greek mythology. And his attempt to challenge the popular Freudian interpretation of the "Oedipus complex". And his most recent attempt, as well, to bring life to the colorless cinema, as he put it.