“Oedipus Movie Review”
After watching the film on Oedipus I think I was impressed with the film over all. The director did a great job with capturing all the key moments that really stuck out in the story. I think the movie definitely did a great job on showing the townspeople’s reactions to all the events of the tragedy. When we read the book it wasn’t as good with the chorus part because when you see a group of people getting all riled up after Oedipus’s secret is revealed it adds more drama to the story. Christopher Plummer did a great job with the agonizing part of gouging his eyes out in the film. Although they didn’t show all of the gouging he was really intense during it and it made me squirm in my chair, so he did great with his acting. Another part of the movie that was acted out better than I thought it would, was when Oedipus wants to see his children one last time. The actors in this scene did a perfect job in capturing the true awkwardness of the situation. You can tell how the children are kind of frightened and how the people don’t really think it was a good idea. I also liked the scene where Oedipus starts to blame Creon and accuses him of plotting against him. The reason this scene stood out to me was because the two actors really showed the tension I felt in the story when I was reading it. I think the two actors did great in showing the emotions of the scene and basically acting it out the way I imagined it to be like.
Although I did enjoy most of the film with Christopher Plummer there were some parts that I didn’t care for. The part where the old man is being forced by Oedipus to tell him what he knew didn’t get my attention like I thought it would. When I ready the story I envisioned an old man almost being forced with no choice but to tell Oedipus the truth because of the pain he was dealing with. After seeing the scene in the movie it kind of seemed like that the old man was just threatened and confessed the awful secret he was...