Comic book adventure with a tang of zionist propaganda...

Rating: 1/10 (5 October 2007)

Now this is a fine piece of cinema, its making, timed to perfection given prevailing international climate characterised by anti-Persian propaganda.
I began watching the film unaware of its context, director, novelist etc...The first few minutes was illuminating indeed  The Spartans, were depicted as noble yet ruthless worriers, their women the personification of beauty and sophistication. One look at the 6-packed abs of muscular steel of Leonides and his worrier pals was enough to persuade anyone of their divine righteousness..
After all, these were the crème e la crème sadistic neo-Darwinian selection process that threw anything but Class A babies down the abyss. The fortune select few, where then subjected to a toughening-up regime which would earn the perpetrators 5 years hard labour for child abuse.
Now by contrast, the hapless Persian are variously portrayed as the cowardly hoard who are mere canon fodder to the divine worriers., or as freaky elite Persian immortals essentially soulless demonic entities, still no match though for the Spartan 6-packers. The depiction of the Persian emperor, contrary to all historical depictions, as the 'freak' of 'freaks' was the clincher As a film, I found '300' an utterly boring and predictable narrative, inferior to even the tragic 'Alexander' As a piece of anti-Persian pro-Zionist propaganda, it is crude and transparent; much reminiscent of the anti Semitic propaganda churned out by the Nazis, to demonise the indigenous undesirables - pre mass deportations and expropriations.
Will it help in softening-up 'public opinion' against the freaky 'Persian' on the road to invasion an annihilation  remains to be seen