Titus
Movie • 1999 • Drama
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Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.
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Does someone vomit?
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Seedy
Safe! no one vomits, one mention of it at around 1:22 but nothing happens. Some spitting and blood coming out the mouth but wasn’t triggering to me at all
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McKenzieWilkes
If you're coming to this film and story, the rape is an important aspect of the action of the play. But important to note here the rape IS NOT SHOWN ON SCREEN, but here are some possibly upsetting moments surrounding it.
At 55 minutes in the rapists begin to take Lavinia away and there's an extended scene where they drag her around and undress her gradually while they speak and she pleads to Tamora. Once they drag her away the scene ends for now.
1 hour, 3 minutes in they cut back to the aftermath of the rape where she is left alone and disfigured, though the rapists joke at her expense for a moment before running off. The next sequence is the aftermath, and it's relevant for the remainder of the film.
1 hour, 34 minutes in when Lavinia writes the names of her rapists, there's like very artistic, abstract flashbacks to the assault but it's her standing as a deer while the men roar and tigers jump around them. That's the most of the actual assault that's shown on screen.
At 55 minutes in the rapists begin to take Lavinia away and there's an extended scene where they drag her around and undress her gradually while they speak and she pleads to Tamora. Once they drag her away the scene ends for now.
1 hour, 3 minutes in they cut back to the aftermath of the rape where she is left alone and disfigured, though the rapists joke at her expense for a moment before running off. The next sequence is the aftermath, and it's relevant for the remainder of the film.
1 hour, 34 minutes in when Lavinia writes the names of her rapists, there's like very artistic, abstract flashbacks to the assault but it's her standing as a deer while the men roar and tigers jump around them. That's the most of the actual assault that's shown on screen.
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McKenzieWilkes
Major aspect of the play / film, detailed further elsewhere on this page.
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Is rape mentioned?
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McKenzieWilkes
Major part of the plot, detailed elsewhere on this page.
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Does a head get squashed?
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mercutioisdead
no, but someone gets stabbed thru the mouth with a kinda blunt object!!
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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mercutioisdead
not specifically, but *hands* are cut off
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Is there decapitation?
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mercutioisdead
we see two heads in jars!
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Is there a hanging?
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McKenzieWilkes
The Goth army attempts to hang Aaron but they don't go through with it.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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mercutioisdead
someone gets stabbed thru the mouth !
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Throats get cut.
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Is there cannibalism?
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McKenzieWilkes
Titus murders and kills the men who raped his daughter and feeds them to their mother. She does not know she is committing cannibalism.
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Is someone buried alive?
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mercutioisdead
he's buried up to the collarbone area and left to starve
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Is there amputation?
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McKenzieWilkes
Lavinia's hands are cut off during her assault (the actual cutting is not shown on screen, but her without hands is). Titus cuts off his hand to save his sons and it is shown on screen in a weirdly comical sequence. The actual cut isn't show, but the amputated hand afterward is show numerous times.
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Are any hands damaged?
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McKenzieWilkes
Cut off, Lavinia and Titus (detailed elsewhere on this page).
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Is someone stabbed?
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McKenzieWilkes
Numerous times how the smaller characters are killed is stabbing.
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Death
Does a major character die?
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McKenzieWilkes
Most of the characters die.
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Does someone cheat?
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McKenzieWilkes
Tamora cheats on her husband with Aaron.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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mercutioisdead
no but there is weird stuff when they eat
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made me a bit uncomfortable tbh but i think that's the point!
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made me a bit uncomfortable tbh but i think that's the point!
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Is there misophonia?
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McKenzieWilkes
At the feast there's lots of close ups and sounds of people eating the "meat" pie.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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mercutioisdead
it's surrealism so i'd say yeah- it's pretty crazy lol
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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McKenzieWilkes
The opening of the film has some frantic flashing lights but after that it's safe.
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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McKenzieWilkes
Certain characters have asides that are taken direct to camera.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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mercutioisdead
i mean nobody is *canonically* queer, but many queer coded ppl die lol (like alan cumming's character)
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McKenzieWilkes
Not technically but Tamora's sons get weirdly physical with one another in their initial scene — humping eachother and burying their faces in eachother's crotch. It verges vaguely incestual but it doesn't do that throughout the film.
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Are there nude scenes?
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McKenzieWilkes
There's some slight nudity when the soldiers bath in the beginning, then later in the film an orgy with some nudity - mostly just a bunch of butts.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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McKenzieWilkes
I vote no, only because Taymor's intention with the ending is to leave the audience with a feeling that Lucius will be breaking the cycles of abuse that were on display throughout the film. It's an intended hopeful ending, but of course it is one of Shakespeare's tragedies so the majority of the characters die and end unhappily, if that's what you consider a sad ending.
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