YMMV / Titus (1999)

• Awesome Music: So awesome that Tyler Bates plagiarized it for 300.
  • "Victorius Titus"
  • "Finale"
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The movie is brimming with them. Some prime examples are the dance of the carnival performers who present Titus with the severed heads of his sons (and his own severed hand), Lavinia's rape flashback (which involves heavy metal music and gratuitous tigers), most of the orgy scenes, and the bit where Chiron dances on a pool table wearing enough leather to start his own BDSM colony.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Harry Lennix is one of the lesser-known actors in the film, but as Aaron, he manages to steal every scene he's in.
• Nightmare Fuel: Lavinia spitting blood when her uncle finds her.
• Tear Jerker
  • Young Lucius runs to a store of dummy hands and presents them to his mutilated, traumatized aunt in hopes of cheering her. Her smile speaks volumes.
  • The ending, where Young Lucius, who had been taught to hate the black Moors, takes pity on Aaron's infant son by freeing him from the cage, and presumably, the cycle of revenge and bloodthirst. He walks with the baby in his arms, departing the colosseum of bloodshed towards a sunrise just peeping over the horizon. The visuals and the gestures speak for themselves.
• This Is Your Premise on Drugs: The movie is best described as the original abusing LSD and a time machine.

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