She cuts her hair in grief and looks like a boy. Her lost twin brother can be recognized by a hunting scar. But this is not Shakespeare yet. Our film can draw from classical sources galore. Early emphasis on Electra's marriage follows Euripides, whereas Sophocles picks up with Orestes return. Aeschylus relies on Orestes footprint on the tomb.
Electra says Orestes will reverse their bad fortune. Aegisthus says he will remove Orestes' head. Kakogiannis portrays these graphically with Electra rolling on the tomb, a point of view shot completing a 360 degree rotation off the axis of the horizon live.
Of course it began farther back. A god makes a command. Agamemmnon killed daughter Iphigenia, whose mom Clytemnestra, his wife, kills him in the bath. So their son Orestes kills her. The furies pursue him. We're back to gods, or Sartre's flies.
Electra says Orestes will reverse their bad fortune. Aegisthus says he will remove Orestes' head. Kakogiannis portrays these graphically with Electra rolling on the tomb, a point of view shot completing a 360 degree rotation off the axis of the horizon live.
Of course it began farther back. A god makes a command. Agamemmnon killed daughter Iphigenia, whose mom Clytemnestra, his wife, kills him in the bath. So their son Orestes kills her. The furies pursue him. We're back to gods, or Sartre's flies.
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