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Gladiator tells the story of one mans journey to return home. It begins with Maximus as a soldier fighting in Germania and concludes as Maximus fighting as a victorious gladiator. In this film, the director Ridley Scott uses a series of repeated images to help move the film on and achieve closure. In this essay I will explain how he does this, and to what extent it achieves closure. After a brief historical background, we are greeted into the film with a man walking through barley. There is a non-diegetic and haunting female vocalist which leaves us feeling intrigued as to who the man is and what he is doing. He has a ring on his 3rd finger, which shows us that he is a married man and has a certain degree of wealth to be able to afford the ring. However, the clothing that he is wearing does not resemble...

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