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That is the deep truth of Gladiator : you can be murdered, but you cannot be made to kneel. And sometimes, the only way to win is to die with your eyes fixed on something the empire cannot see.

The film, at its surface, is a revenge tragedy. A loyal general is betrayed by a corrupt emperor, his wife and son murdered, his army stolen, his identity erased. Sold into slavery, he rises through the blood-slick ranks of the gladiatorial arena to face his tormentor in the Colosseum. But to read Gladiator only as a story of vengeance is to miss its true wound. It is not about killing Commodus. It is about whether a man can remain a man when everything that made him human has been turned into a spectacle. gladiator 1

This is the first lesson of Gladiator : power that forgets the smell of mud is already dead. That is the deep truth of Gladiator :