Franco Citti ... Oedipus
Luciano Bartoli ... Laius
Francesco Leonetti ... Laius' Servant
directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Edipo re (1967) Oedipus the King
from Friedrich Nietzsche "The Birth of Tragedy" (1872, translated by Shaun Whiteside):
"There is an ancient folk belief, particularly prevalent in Persia, that a wise magus can be born only from incest: our immediate interpretation of this, with reference to Oedipus the riddle-solver and suitor of his own mother, is that for clairvoyant and magical powers to have broken the spell of the present and the future, the rigid law of individuation and the true magic of nature itself, the cause must have been a monstrous crime against nature--incest in this case; for how could nature be forced to offer up her secrets if not by being triumphantly resisted--by unnatural acts? I see this insight as quite clearly present in the terrible trinity that shapes Oedipus' fate: the man who solves the riddle of nature--of the dual-natured Sphinx--must also, as his father's murderer and his mother's lover, transgress the sacred codes of nature. Indeed, what the myth seems to whisper to us is that wisdom, and Dionysiac wisdom in particular, is an abominable crime against nature; that anyone who, through his knowledge, casts nature into the abyss of destruction, must himself experience the dissolution of nature."
Luciano Bartoli ... Laius
Francesco Leonetti ... Laius' Servant
directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Edipo re (1967) Oedipus the King
from Friedrich Nietzsche "The Birth of Tragedy" (1872, translated by Shaun Whiteside):
"There is an ancient folk belief, particularly prevalent in Persia, that a wise magus can be born only from incest: our immediate interpretation of this, with reference to Oedipus the riddle-solver and suitor of his own mother, is that for clairvoyant and magical powers to have broken the spell of the present and the future, the rigid law of individuation and the true magic of nature itself, the cause must have been a monstrous crime against nature--incest in this case; for how could nature be forced to offer up her secrets if not by being triumphantly resisted--by unnatural acts? I see this insight as quite clearly present in the terrible trinity that shapes Oedipus' fate: the man who solves the riddle of nature--of the dual-natured Sphinx--must also, as his father's murderer and his mother's lover, transgress the sacred codes of nature. Indeed, what the myth seems to whisper to us is that wisdom, and Dionysiac wisdom in particular, is an abominable crime against nature; that anyone who, through his knowledge, casts nature into the abyss of destruction, must himself experience the dissolution of nature."
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxktJ4iz7Cc
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