The Gods Are Still Not to Blame is a modern cinematic adaptation of a classical Greek play ‘Oedipus Rex’ and the famous Ola Rotimi play,’The God’s Are Not To Blame’.
The movie is a modern dramaturgical experiment about the
classical philosophical discourse concerning the concept of destiny and fate
element which was started by Sophillus Sophocles (c.496-406 BC) with Oedipus
Rex around 430BC by Ola Rotimi (1938-1999) with a title, The Gods are not to
Blame in 1968. It justifies the opinion that man is the architect of his own
fortune and misfortune. It is a contemporary movie adaptation which the
society, setting and language portrays a modernism and realism.
