I didn’t know about the Shakespeare play before learning of the movie, but it sounded interesting. It’s a modern adaptation, updating the setting to the present day. Such adaptions may not please everyone, but it works. Really well, in fact.

Prescient is the wrong word, but it’s the first impression I had watching Coriolanus campaign for consul. Timeless, maybe. The modern update helps drive this home; a period setting would have allowed the viewer to dismiss the story as not here, not now. His campaign goes about as well as I imagine my presidential campaign would go. I don’t know if the timing of the movie to coincide with the primary campaigns is deliberate, but it’s apt.