300. See it!
I saw 300.
It was brutal, totally historically inaccurate and wholly simplistic.
It was also AWESOME.
I loved it.
And this is coming from someone who hated Sin City with a passion. Maybe because there was no sickening violence to women here. Any objectification of the Oracle girl was cancelled by Gorgo, Leonidas' wife. She was HARDCORE. Maybe because unlike repulsive characters of SC, you could root for soldiers fighting for their country without feeling unclean.
It knew what it was, what it was trying to be, and it did it excellently. It did not even pretend to be a historical rendition of the story, but some sort of an ur-epic, a mythic Beowulfian narrative (yes, I am mixing metaphors here). It mixed some widely recognized Spartan motifs ('with your shield or on it') into a heroic fantasy.
It made my blood pound (no pun intended), it left me breathless and mesmerized. It went straight for that 'excitement' part of the brain. It was simple, straightworward and DAMN GOOD.
The most brutal part of the movie? The brutal hotness of the Spartan men. I know what kind of battle a lot of ladies of my acquaintance would like to drag King Leonidas into.
P.S. My 'effeminate' icon is oddly amusing considering 300! :D
It was brutal, totally historically inaccurate and wholly simplistic.
It was also AWESOME.
I loved it.
And this is coming from someone who hated Sin City with a passion. Maybe because there was no sickening violence to women here. Any objectification of the Oracle girl was cancelled by Gorgo, Leonidas' wife. She was HARDCORE. Maybe because unlike repulsive characters of SC, you could root for soldiers fighting for their country without feeling unclean.
It knew what it was, what it was trying to be, and it did it excellently. It did not even pretend to be a historical rendition of the story, but some sort of an ur-epic, a mythic Beowulfian narrative (yes, I am mixing metaphors here). It mixed some widely recognized Spartan motifs ('with your shield or on it') into a heroic fantasy.
It made my blood pound (no pun intended), it left me breathless and mesmerized. It went straight for that 'excitement' part of the brain. It was simple, straightworward and DAMN GOOD.
The most brutal part of the movie? The brutal hotness of the Spartan men. I know what kind of battle a lot of ladies of my acquaintance would like to drag King Leonidas into.
P.S. My 'effeminate' icon is oddly amusing considering 300! :D