I thought the movie was a long exploration of love on every level and from every side, and it is played on top of a retelling and twisting of an actual historical event. It showed the ugliness and beauty of love. There was grief, jealousy, sex as a weapon on the negative side. Catalina was in the middle of psychosis in the first half of the movie, but he was also an indifferent and uncaring; the visuals in the first half can be seen through the lens of his psychosis. We don’t see how Platinum falls in love with Catalina but we know how that drives her anger and jealousy; which is how Pulcher responds to rejection. It was love that redeemed him and the second half of the movie was how that happened. Beyond the personal love, the movie explores love through the lens of family and civics to the love of humanity and all beings. As love refines Catalina, he starts to care more about other people. The movie as a whole can be seen through the lens of a fable with magical realism. As a fable, it has a clear moral message. The structure was coherent and clear. For the historical events, the scandal with the Vestal virgin happened with the real Catalina being accused of trying to sleep with one, which was a potential death sentence. The Coliseum scene with the virgin also speaks to love misused, her virginity was being put up for sale. I also think the historical Catalina is split into two characters - the cousins portrayed by Driver, who is the superego, and Labeouf, who is the id. But Driver starts off with his id and superego fighting from the grief of the loss of his wife. Coppola subverted both fables and the ending of the real conspiracy. Rome became a dictatorship. And part of the point of the movie is we can't make it on our own. Love is what brought him out of the madness.
You got sugar plums dancing in your head. You got it all figured out, but there's one problem, you don't. Talk about projection and wishful thinking on to a movie. You take the cake.
@@lymphomasurvive I wouldn't say I figured it out, where did I say that? Not only are you seeing things in this movie but you're seeing things in my response to your long-winded comment. You're hilarious. 😆
I agree with muhammad. I did my research first and it didn't ruin anything. I love ❤️ the film .it's brilliant and a masterpiece. All the reviews were horrible but we decided to go anyway. Academy Award for Best Picture.
Do think that, if you understood the context of the story more so from the basis of where it’s taking inspiration from and looked into it all, you’d understand the plot it’s meaning and overall direction of what it’s about , but then again homework prior to a movie is a bit annoying but good work nonetheless
True, homework before a movie makes it difficult to appreciate. I will say though, the few visual spectacles I enjoyed, did give me compositional inspiration.
I thought the movie was a long exploration of love on every level and from every side, and it is played on top of a retelling and twisting of an actual historical event. It showed the ugliness and beauty of love. There was grief, jealousy, sex as a weapon on the negative side. Catalina was in the middle of psychosis in the first half of the movie, but he was also an indifferent and uncaring; the visuals in the first half can be seen through the lens of his psychosis. We don’t see how Platinum falls in love with Catalina but we know how that drives her anger and jealousy; which is how Pulcher responds to rejection. It was love that redeemed him and the second half of the movie was how that happened. Beyond the personal love, the movie explores love through the lens of family and civics to the love of humanity and all beings. As love refines Catalina, he starts to care more about other people. The movie as a whole can be seen through the lens of a fable with magical realism. As a fable, it has a clear moral message. The structure was coherent and clear. For the historical events, the scandal with the Vestal virgin happened with the real Catalina being accused of trying to sleep with one, which was a potential death sentence. The Coliseum scene with the virgin also speaks to love misused, her virginity was being put up for sale. I also think the historical Catalina is split into two characters - the cousins portrayed by Driver, who is the superego, and Labeouf, who is the id. But Driver starts off with his id and superego fighting from the grief of the loss of his wife. Coppola subverted both fables and the ending of the real conspiracy. Rome became a dictatorship. And part of the point of the movie is we can't make it on our own. Love is what brought him out of the madness.
You got sugar plums dancing in your head. You got it all figured out, but there's one problem, you don't. Talk about projection and wishful thinking on to a movie. You take the cake.
@@grosbeak6130 I didn’t know there was a cake involved. Describe this cake in detail.
@@lymphomasurvive the cake is the sugar plums dancing in your head, as I've already stated.
@@grosbeak6130 Since you have it figured out, tell me exactly what I got wrong.
@@lymphomasurvive I wouldn't say I figured it out, where did I say that? Not only are you seeing things in this movie but you're seeing things in my response to your long-winded comment. You're hilarious. 😆
I agree with muhammad. I did my research first and it didn't ruin anything. I love ❤️ the film .it's brilliant and a masterpiece. All the reviews were horrible but we decided to go anyway. Academy Award for Best Picture.
Check out what I said. It is a good movie.
@@lymphomasurvive nice.
@@user-jeffjack I can fully understand not liking it, but I don't understand those who say it's incoherent.
@@lymphomasurvive I agree 👍.
Do think that, if you understood the context of the story more so from the basis of where it’s taking inspiration from and looked into it all, you’d understand the plot it’s meaning and overall direction of what it’s about , but then again homework prior to a movie is a bit annoying but good work nonetheless
True, homework before a movie makes it difficult to appreciate. I will say though, the few visual spectacles I enjoyed, did give me compositional inspiration.
The small bit of research I did helped a lot.
Absolute trash, that's what you watched