Politiking Techie

2007/03/12

300 the way I saw it

I'm kind of upset because of the way this movie is doing to mess up heads of a no small number of young Americans who had not reached maturity. I don't know... Call me paranoid, but this movie, allegorically and yet not in too subtle a way, explains why the nation considering itself a foundation and a citadel of all kinds of liberties and freedoms needs to go out there and destroy those that oppose it. I would not be bothered to look into historical context and how truthfully (or rather not) the story was re-told...

But here comes the encoded message:
  1. Persians. At what other historical moment there would be an opportunity to label them worse that this?
  2. Did you recognise some entity in the council of "wise man"? Refers to either UN or The Senate, in my view, in a very derogatory and false way
  3. All the Asians altogether: monsters, deserving to be slain without mercy for horrible creatures they are: filthy, decadent, and greedy.
  4. One monster was strikingly reminiscent of a type in one of Rocky movies, the half-naked giant that through Rocky fame represents nothing but Russians...
This is just disgusting. Whether it is a conscious choice of people making the movie, or something they were paid to do... I don't know. Quite appaling all the same. I can imagine a shameless producer selling the movie concept to the Department of Defence, Homeland Security or something like that... After all, if there are no cars and no cell phones in the movie, what advertising company needs to be behind it to finance the production?