I know there is a great story trapped beneath the surface of this movie. An Ancient Greek tragedy. A gifted & sensitive young man being coached, restrained, held back by a code of ancient rules of stoicism.
Born a slave, no father figure for the first decade of his life, ripped away from his mother while he was young. Only to return to the dirt farm to find his mother murdered, he yearns for the power over life & death, to right…
