This movie still sticks in my mind although I saw it some decades ago. I could never understand the tone of optimism and joie de vivre celebrated by so many promoters before and after I saw it. To me the overwhelming event was the callous lynching of the Widow, and the subsequent shrugging of the shoulders by Zorba in his attitude of just "getting on with life" after that horror. I had nightmares for years afterwards. It remains one of the most horrific movies I've ever seen.
I had always loved the music, especially the main theme and dance "Zorba the Greek" before I saw it, but I I couldn't subsequently bear to hear it. I do feel that when it was first released and promoted, its content was largely misrepresented. How could anyone celebrate the positives about this movie when its negative feature so overwhelmingly colours its narrative? I'm not against realism in movies, but when the actual experience of seeing it turns out to be so opposite to what I expected I was extremely disappointed. A joyful movie should be promoted as such, and a horror movie should be advertised as such.
I had always loved the music, especially the main theme and dance "Zorba the Greek" before I saw it, but I I couldn't subsequently bear to hear it. I do feel that when it was first released and promoted, its content was largely misrepresented. How could anyone celebrate the positives about this movie when its negative feature so overwhelmingly colours its narrative? I'm not against realism in movies, but when the actual experience of seeing it turns out to be so opposite to what I expected I was extremely disappointed. A joyful movie should be promoted as such, and a horror movie should be advertised as such.