This is the second movie that I have ever seen Laura Fraser in. I first saw her play Kate in 'A Knights Tale'.
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She is quickly becoming one of my favorite actresses. I think she does a great job acting. She was wonderful in this movie, in my opinion.
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I saw her in Edinburgh a couple of months ago and she has the most voluptuous lips since Nastasja Kinski. She's also a great actress, though she's wasted in the new movie she's in, The Flying Scotsman.
shareI agree that she was very good in this movie, especially since she didn't talk much. She got Lavinia's anguish across very well. I thought everyone was wonderful in this movie though, brilliant acting by all.
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She was also pretty good in "Iron Jawed Angels." Of course, it was a very good movie in general. Laura did a good job of the American accent, which is always a good thing.
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I've always been meaning to rent that and haven't gotten around to it yet. I'm really starting to like her a lot, so I think I'll move it up my to-rent list.
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You should see her in 'Left Luggage', in which she plays a modern jewish girl who starts working as a babysitter for a couple of orthodox jews. Wonderful story and Laura Fraser is amazing in that film.
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They were escaping the world the boy had become a part of. The boy, and by extention the viewer, becomes a part of Titus' world, believing its violent and racist beliefs (he kills the fly because it is black like the 'Empress' Moor', which is Taymor's addition, Marcus kills the fly in the play).
Yet after the bloodbath of the final scene, he picks up the black baby and carries him out of the Colliseum, out of the violent and racist world he has become a part of. He realises that violence is not entertainment or a good thing, it's a complete change from his beliefs at the beginning, where his child's play in his kitchen was incredibly violent.
The boy's realisation is the kind of realisation Taymor wants the viewer to have. She wants us to see that our love of graphic violence as entertainment (300, Pulp Fiction, Sin City, Gladiator, to name a few examples) is not a good thing and it is a value system we should leave behind, just like the boy.
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THANK YOU. That was basically what I gathered from the end scene as well. I thought perhaps that the boy playing with toys and starting a fire in his kitchen was a modern boy, obsessed with/amused by violence as our American youth tend to be. When his father comes and rescues him (a bit angrily) from the fire he started and sets him in the colliseum, I thought it was like a father telling the erring child a story to show him why this violence is not admirable, and what it can lead to. When he leaves with the baby at the end, it was like an acknowledgement of the horrors he witnessed, that he learned the lesson well, and that he's going to try to make a better future of it.
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