Looking at the complete set of gladiators, what I admire most is the fullness of the characters, especially Commodus, an unscrupulous and sympathetic emperor. He is paranoid, crazy, and cruel; yet depressed, painful, and desperate. to a certain degree.
In my opinion, his character creation is more successful than the protagonist Maximus.
Commodus is somewhat similar to Emperor Yanshan in "The King's Man", the same cruel and the same pathetic. In particular, the scene of Commodus holding his father Marcus Aurelius crying in the dark room, like the scene of Jun Yan holding Kongji, who was transformed into a concubine, crying.
At dawn after Maximus was arrested, Commodus was so tough on his sister he had loved for many years, and the sentence "Am I not merciful?" was heartbroken.
He loves and hates his father and sister. The entanglement of love and hate makes him full of contradictions. He cried bitterly after slashing his sword at the stone statue of his father, and with tears in his eyes he said hurtful words to his sister.
From beginning to end, his hand rubbed his sister's lips many times, but he never really kissed it.
He didn't dare, he knew his sister didn't love him.
His love is full of undesirable resentment. His hatred is full of sadness and love.
He loves his father, and his father thinks that his virtue is not enough to be the emperor, and even wants to give Rome to Maximus; he loves his sister, and her sister fears him, and privately unites the Senate members to overthrow him; he wants Rome to be the Rome of the people, the people Cheers for Maximus constantly.
And all the things he couldn't ask for, his old enemy Maximus could easily get, but Maximus didn't want any of them. How ironic.
He failed beyond compare.
I think that the tragic color reflected in him is no less than the protagonist Maximus.
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