Directed by Ralph Fiennes (Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter films), Coriolanus tells the tale of Caius Martius Coriolanus (Fiennes), a Roman general whose recent victories on the field of honor convince men of power that he’d be a perfect candidate for the Roman senate. Unfortunately, after a lifetime of fighting in wars, Coriolanus doesn’t have the skills needed for peace. He sees politicians as men too weak to fight and the public only as the lowly scum he’s paid to protect if they are on his side and kill if they are not. Unskilled in the way so government, Coriolanus falls into a trap set by two senators who bait him into revealing his true feelings about the common folk on a national TV show. They charge him with treason and manage to get him exiled. Outraged at being betrayed, Coriolanus joins the army he once fought against and pledges his strength to help them destroy Rome instead.
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