Visioni della Medea

Thanks to Pasolini's versatility and multi-layered artistry, many of his typical thoughts can be found in his films, in this case, a deep sense of existence and experiencing the people of the past, and the disturbing fact that so little of them have made it into our modern times. In Curd Cheese (1963), through the words of Orson Welles, we hear the famous lines: "I am the force of the past, Tradition is my only love. (...) And I,  adult fetus, wander, more modern than any modern, in search of brothers...  who are no more." Pasolini searches for these vanished people and finds them in antiquity, finding his "brother" in Medea, condemned to witness the destruction of her homeland and the mythical connection between natural forces and mankind. Her world, which seems barbaric and magical to modern Corinthians... Pasolini pities her and understands "her spiritual crisis, her disorientation as an ancient woman in a world that ignores everything she once believed in." He can't help but understand her, as he feels the same. But "What is the point of all this? - There is none. That is reality." There is nothing to be done about it, but Pasolini has one option left - he can play the role of a modern "centaur," evoking stimulating feelings of ancient and desecrated "centaurs." (07/09/2013)