Oedipus Rex: film review Oedipus Rex is the first of the trilogy on the life of Oedipus and his children, written by Sophocles. It tells the tragic story of a child who was abandoned in a camp with the consent of his parents to escape the terrible prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother. However, the servant who was supposed to leave the child in the field took him to a shepherd who in turn gave the child to the childless king and queen of Corinth. Therefore, unbeknownst to his parents, the child grew up to be a fine young man. As he grew older, the child learned that the parents he knew were not his real parents. Wanting to find the truth, he sought the advice of an oracle who gave the now adult child no answer to his question, but prophesied that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Fearful, the young man left his country only to make the prophecies addressed to him and his father come true. However, it was years later, when he already fathered four children by his mother, that the story developed and Oedipus learned...