Cato is a complex character who never stopped moving, trying to twist his way into a way he could stay true to himself while also staying safe and alive. His many failures cut a cruelty into him that lashed out in turn, and he enacted onto others the same violence to which he was subjected. The poisoned ideal of masculine violence that's elevated when embodied in a white man is demonized and punished in a Black man, same as it ever was.
