Feature film. Story follows a couple motives of a Sophocles: Oedipus in Colonus. CHARACTERS: Oedipus the old, Oedipus the young, Creon, others. LOCATION: Ancient Greece. Written and directed by Zoltan Demme.
The main message of the movie is a deep philosophical one, even futuristic in its grandiosity. „OEDIPUS TO THESEUS: It is intolerable that the evolution process can make anything with people, animals and plants! Intolerable that it produces again and again millions of monstrous creatures tearing to pieces and gobbling up each other! The Entire Living World is spoiled!.. However, the famous Canaan Carpets, the carpets from the Promised Land diclose something relevant Theseus!! They disclose that what kind of living world and land the God promised to us! …You know what the Canaan Carpets present? Snails climbing trees undergrowth instead! Pears, apples, raspberries ripening in snowfall! And dangerous fishes we see! No hunting with the mouth! Rather hide the young! Nestling we see that feed their own mother! Shocking! Horrible! Neither a single animal nor a single plant is appearing on the carpets as usual! Is this Canaan? Is this the Promised Land? Yes, Theseus! It is! The Living World that doesn’t follow the million years old rules of nature! Evolution, that has been deflected!…”
This movie is an interesting and at some parts engaging, sort of “experimental” film whereby multiple stories are told in sequence in a strange theme as if it is being played on a computer (even showing new artistic possibilities for future movies: viewers can make here choices to listen the scenes in romantic, lyric, horror, and many other versions.) Firstly it can appear confusing but the story is told with a pace that is easily understandable and the message through each segment and section is clear. Great production quality!
ANDREW R. DAMU