I just saw this movie called, "Spartacus" in my "history of motion pictures" class yesterday,and now I'm trying to write a diary entry thingy on it. Let's see if I can somehow get my ideas out and then, turn them into a paper somehow, lol. I was amazed to find I really liked this movie...at 1st. It was interesting enough to hold my attention and have me on the edge of my seat thru the whole thing. The whole movie is about slaves who wish to be free of being slaves. Spartacus was an intelligent man who thought "outside the box." While every1 else just got used 2 being slaves and put up w/it, Spartacus wouldn't accept it. He was looking for a way to get his freedom; looking for a way to make EVERY1 free.
It was really sweet too because he gets sold to his new master who has a "school" teaching the slaves to be warriors; learn how to fight. They are not supposed to actually KILL each other there, they r just simply TRAINING to be gladiators. It is up to their new owner once their sold again as to what do w/them,but while in this "school", they r not supposed to fight to the death. Also, in this "school", there r women slaves too,and the women got put in cells w/the men. Each man got 1 woman put in his cell w/him. This is how Spartacus meets the love of his life. It's sweet coz u can tell he's infatuated by her right away,but he is a gentleman.
He tells her he's never had a woman before,yet he doesn't try to sleep w/her. There r other men that have an opening to his cell above where they can see them,and they tell him he's weak or whatever bcoz he's not making any moves on her. He yells at them that he's not an animal. I LOVE men like that. The woman was eventually taken from his cell just because he wasn't taking advantage of her. Sometime into the movie(mind u I only saw this once,so it's gonna be kinda hard remembering everything accurately), more slave owners come visit the "school" to come buy some slaves. They want to see 2 slaves fight each other to the death,and the victor is the 1 that they will purchase. Amongst all this, the woman Spartacus loves, gets sold. At the same time, 1 of the other slave guards or whatever provokes him by smacking in the face,so Spartacus retaliates by beating the crap out of this guy and eventually, drowning him in soup. He gets ALL the other slaves riled up at this point,and they're all punching/killing guards and breaking away.
They end up escaping and forming together to try and flee Italy and have their freedom for good. The move was going along great at 1st. I was cheering Spartacus and his whole army on the whole time. People were escaping. They were gonna get out of there. I ended up not like the way the movie ended because everything they had done..they had gotten SO. FAR...for nothing. It was all in vain. Spartacus does get to be w/the woman he loves later on,and they do have a son together,but he and the other slaves lost the war w/the rest of Rome. Most of them were killed and the ones who survived were crucified. Spartacus and another man were spared their lives for a little bit longer,but then the 2 men were forced to fight each other to the death,and the 1 left standing was to be crucified anyway. Which is what happened, Spartacus killed his dear friend and was later crucified. His wife and newborn son manage to escape and get their freedom. but Spartacus still ends up dying in the end.
The thing was, they hung him on a cross that night,and the next day was when his wife w/their new born made their escape. He was still alive for just a little while. Long enough for his wife to hold the baby up to him as best as she could and introduce their son to him. Then a few min later, he died. It sucked so bad. everything he went thru to get freedom for all of them. In the end, it was only his wife and son who got freedom. Every1 else was either killed or went back to being slaves. I HATED that ending w/a passion. At the very LEAST, I wanted HIM to survive. Or somebody to climb up that cross and get him down; nurse his wounds enough that he survives after all and can escape w/his wife and son. It isn't fair that he got cheated out of being w/his lady and seeing his son grow up. It isn't fair that the infant got cheated out of knowing his father. So I liked the movie but hated the ending. That gets a HUGE dislike from me/
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