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:
But here comes the encoded message:
- Persians. At what other historical moment there would be an opportunity to label them worse that this?
- 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
- All the Asians altogether: monsters, deserving to be slain without mercy for horrible creatures they are: filthy, decadent, and greedy.
- 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...
