One of the Best Movies Ever Made

I watched this on Fandor about a month ago and I think it's one of the best movies I've seen. It has everything a movie should have. Many films use dialogue as a crutch, but this one is practically silent, but coupled with incredible modern pacing, mood, and mise en scene that wouldn't be found in a silent film. The print I saw was bad, but you can tell how the cinematography should look. It adapts from the source material excellently. The original play is obviously told entirely with dialogue and the characters recount past events, but Pasolini tells the story through the images, not the words, and without the flashback: preferable with a movie. He replaces Sophocles's writing style with an equally great cinematic style. More film fans should know this movie.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
--Orson Welles