Who knows the story of Medea?

Medea, or Mitija, is the most famous vengeful woman in all ages, and the patron saint of all women who suffer from betrayal and jealousy. In order to fall in love with Jason, a foreigner, she gave up her status as a princess, stole golden fleece, a national treasure, killed her younger brother, and was willing to go away with her husband and drift away. However, her brave love and great sacrifice eventually turned into a joke: her husband decided to marry Princess Collins in exchange for stable fame. Medea, desperate, launched a terrorist revenge: first, she offered poison clothes to kill her husband's new love, and then she took two children by hand, leaving her ungrateful husband with nothing.

From Greek tragedy to modern drama, this story has been rewritten countless times. Bassolini's version puts aside the classical burden of the three laws, takes a symbol of lust from ancient times-centaur as the narrator, and tells the whole story from the beginning. He went to Turkey and Syria to get a mirror, and pulled the scene back to the wild world of Caucasus where the story happened. The opening is like an anthropological film: a thrilling, horrible and ecstatic primitive ceremony. Medea is a priest, and the process of killing and sacrificing echoes the bloody revenge skill later. The war between the sexes has been transformed into a contrast between Medea's prehistoric animism world and Jason's modern pragmatic world, which is not without innuendo that contemporary third world culture has been eroded by western material civilization. After Medea married Jason, she seemed to have lost all her powers in the rational world. Finally, Medea, who grew up in the Greek tragedy, was lost in the flames by the movie-the mirage of the sun god was also realized, which directly related to Medea's fiery temperament. Just as the sex in Theorem disintegrated the middle-class value, the witchcraft myth in Medea also countered the modern civilization.

Don't think you are mistaken: it is the opera goddess Maria Callas who plays this heroic woman. Although she never sang in the film, her enchanted eyes still burst into flames.