17th April 2010, 3:46 AM
One of the great things about 300 (which as a heterosexual man I can tell you I masturbated several times while watching) is that it mixes actual history with the story and styling of that period and how that story was told to people during that time, how the other cultures appeared, perceptions of those people, etc. Did you notice how he didn't recognize it as an "elephant" it was simply a "beast from another world". Part of the plot was to kill the God King but instead he made him bleed, both sides of the conflict were awestruck because both sides lived at a time when the belief was that Gods were as real as the ground at your feet.
It's a wonderfully told story, told from the perspective of a culture that only knew war against another who sought domination. It was a mirror to today's conflicts, how alien and bizarre the middle eastern cultures look to us, how their strange culture seems to American soldiers. You really have no ability to think or reason, it's scary to me.
It's a wonderfully told story, told from the perspective of a culture that only knew war against another who sought domination. It was a mirror to today's conflicts, how alien and bizarre the middle eastern cultures look to us, how their strange culture seems to American soldiers. You really have no ability to think or reason, it's scary to me.