Titus
1999
**
Director: Julia Taymor
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Harry J. Lennix, Alan Cumming
Roman general Titus Andronicus returns from war and pisses off the wrong people. They destroy him and his family, whereupon he swears revenge on them. You could read the story as a warning against retorting to violence with violence, but that would be giving Shakespeare too much credit. It's apparently one of the bard's least admired efforts and one has to wonder what this concoction including rape, mutilation, filicide and "incestuous cannibalism" could possibly have to offer to today's audience. It's as profound as Hannibal.
