This is a heroic epic, although it is a 2000 movie, it is worthy of being a classic.
The selling point of epic movies is the scenes of war, but more importantly, the heroes who shine with humanity in the story.
A general was demoted to a slave, and a slave became a gladiator, a gladiator who rebelled against the emperor; an amazing story, a life and death drama, the main axis of the whole movie revolves around this.
Therefore, life and death are combined with performance; therefore, it can be understood that the so-called competition is just a scene of life and death; when the battle begins, the arena is the stage, and the gladiator is the actor. The contest is not only about fighting skills, but also better than whose acting skills. See who can control the masses, their madness, joy, anger, love and hate.
Commodore provides such entertainment to the people. By mastering their preferences, he controlled the Senate, and by mastering the life of his nephew, he controlled his sister Lucilla, and the Roman emperor once again controlled a quarter of the world's population.
Until Mesimus, who was chased by him, turned into a gladiator and appeared in front of him, vowing revenge.
At this time, the emperor fell into the drama he created. He found that he could not kill the opponent, because the crowd loved him and loved a slave who wandered between life and death at any time.
At this time, the slave became a gladiator, and the gladiator stood up against the emperor; the whole thing became ironic again.
The way to face death is another key point that has repeatedly appeared in this film. Through hugs──the old emperor and commodes, commodes and methimus, methimus and commodes, suffocation, down Poison, assassination, each hug is a death, and the object of each hug is his own god of death. Comparing these scenes, you can find that different people have different attitudes toward death.
The only exception is Lucilla and Lucius. The embrace between their mother and son is warm and touching. They both survived, only causing the death of others. As for the slave merchant Parsimone, he held a wooden sword symbolizing freedom. , Died with his back to the killer.
The freedom of a gladiator comes from death. It may be someone else or himself who died. That was the time to step off the stage. Parsimone was a gladiator and he was free a long time ago, but later he felt that life under the stage was boring. According to him, mortals are all flying shadows, unable to choose the moment of death, at least they have to choose the way of curtain call.
So the director finally beautified the death of Mesimus, from the beginning to the end is the most funeral ceremony of his death, even the mob stopped the commotion, countless petals flying on the dust, with the singing of Lisa Gerrard, the camera lens The arena rose slowly, looking towards the city of Rome at dusk.
The film also tells from another angle that democratic systems and dictatorships can actually be interlinked. Dictators are sometimes not worse, and democratic governance is sometimes not better. The masses are often blind and fickle, trusting the media and idols. There is no self-knowledge and no self-reflection. You can see that the only ruler in the film who can reflect is the old emperor. The so-called popular feelings are nothing but unnecessary violence and entertainment. As long as you know the correct method, even a tyrant can To be recognized, the people are tantamount to surrendering their power of life and death.
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