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Titus: (1999)  I recently got into a disagreement with a friend about this movie.  We were talking about Shakespeare and he said something like, "I like Shakespeare movies when they are done right but I hate stupid ones like Titus.  I  think that Titus is one of the greatest movies I've ever seen.

First off before you watch this you have to understand a few things.  First off the play is set in ancient Rome.  The movie is set in a modernized ancient Rome, so while there is a Senate and an Emperor there is also motorcycles and videogames.    Secondly the language is more Old English then new Modern English.  Thirdly it's a big, overbearing but greatly rewarding plot.  The plot is so big I am not even attempting to summarize it, lets just say it is about, duty suffering, fate, revenge and human frailty.

In my mind there are two different flows of this movie, one is the plot which like I was saying is big and complicated but oh so satisfying.  The other is a wave of strange and sometimes disconnected sets and images.  Occasionally they work together to make the whole movie better.  For example Titus' daughter is raped and her hands and tongue are chopped off.  When she is discovered in this state she is standing on a stump in a dead surreal swamp, dead twigs and sticks jut out where her hands should be. Her discoverer Marcus begs her to speak but when she opens her mouth a stream of blood flows out in slow motion, this is by far the most touching moment of cinema I have ever experienced.    

Sometimes the two flows don't seem to work together so well but the strange images never seem to mess up the movie for me.  I have only seen this movie a few times but I can conjure up more grand visuals in my mind from this then any other film.  I think that this is a movie that will challenge you and a weaker person would turn it off early but you aren't weak, you'll watch the whole thing!