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...the things women do to each other...


Last night while I was watching Titus (it took me a long time to get into it and figure out what was going on, but once i got the rhythm i couldn't help but be enthralled) I had to wonder how on earth Julie Taymor could be so violent in her direction of the film version of the play...even though the play itself is violent, as Shakespeare intended.

One of the most gruesome scenes takes place when Empress Tamora (played so deliciously by Jessica Lange) orders her two sons (whose resemblance to 80s music sensations the Nelson Twins is almost eerie) to attack and rape the daughter of her arch enemy, Titus.

While it's true Tamora doesn't stick around for the whole thing, she certainly knows what Lavina's fate is going to be and Lange plays the unflinching bitch oh so well.

The thing is that even though this kind of woman on woman barbarism doesn't (thankfully!) happen often in real life, women can be so vindictive and nasty to each other in other ways. Whether it's engaging in office gossip or "stealing" boyfriends or pushing each other aside to move up the corporate ladder, it's pretty scary.

Men aren't this way with each other...I just don't get it!!!