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Medea (431BC), Euripides (Movie: Pierpaolo Pasolini, 1969
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The clash between agrarian and maritime and city-state civilisations, Pasolini's poetic nostalgia for nature. The unique framing (using the Turkish desert to show Medea's mysterious homeland), the strong sense of ritual, the rotation between fantasy and reality, the sound and picture treatment where painful steps and dissonance coexist, the mix of North African and Japanese music, are all highly imaginative.
Iason is not a lost and rising hero, he is a dull and mediocre layman, Medea is not a vengeful and poisonous woman, she is nature, she is the primordial and mysterious force, the wandering witch chasing the sun on the habitat of human civilization. Pasolini make a anti-demonization of Greek mythology. constructing a horrifying epic of ancient barbarism with coarse earth, vast rivers, elaborate decorations and brutal rituals. The gods are in all things in heaven and earth, the roots of agrarian civilisation once revealed to us the true meaning, the sun is outside the gates made of stone, she wears the old robe, man has abandoned the gods and Medea is doomed to die. The magnificent, demonic, intense and tragic face of Callas, the priestess's noble and madly unpredictable form, the power of the body that swells with passion until death, stands between heaven and earth as Medea herself came from the end of the flood. Pasolini and Callas, after these two there will be no Medea!
Human greed, betrayal, folly, revenge, despair and death, Medea is doomed to die, Medea must die
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