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Originally Posted by Agema
300 is not really about anything.
There's nothing in it more complex than Commando, Rocky 4, or Independence Day. Like Frank Miller's other work Sin City, 300 is essentially just a very stylishly presented fantasy targetted for the mindset of adolescent males. Although at least it's less misogynistic than Sin City.
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IMHO, totally wrong.
300 depicts the nationalist ideals. It depicts them in a very fascinating way: we all know they are dangerous, but looking at the movie we understand how they have charmed (I'd say, infected) many minds in recent times.
The Heroes of the Native Land are handsome, strong, fearless heroes, which women are beautiful and corageous.
Politicians are a) corrupted slugs or b) useless and incapable of doing anything. It requires the Dux/Fuhrer (Leonidas), the Man of Action to achieve anything.
Traitors are deformed beings.
The foreigner has wicked and sinful costumes and way of lives, the melting pot of cultures doesn't enrich him but make him just weird.
Etc...
This is what the film shows and says. I much appreciated it - I fear and dislike nationalism, but the movie depicts it very well. - Together with the great and strong visual art of gore and fighting scenes with rock music in them
PS: Rocky 4 is a somewhat ****y movie, but taken has "historical document" is very interesting. It shows a low-level occidental heroic propaganda which, even being quite humorous with today's eyes, was of great effect in these times of Cold War.
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