Story about morality and regression

Rating: Null/10 (11 November 2011)

When I first time saw this film I thought this was truly boring pointless film expect the beautiful artistic visuals. The only reason it occurred to my mind to watch the film again was the homo erotic pictures of half-naked masculine bodies. And to be honest my basic knowledge about spartan people is limited to it s warrior-culture which magnified the masculinity even to the point of homoerotism.Of course every nation under serious external or internal thread appears often to us "civilized" individuals as fascists society full of exaggerated collectivism and eroticised violence. As I know the story is based on a comic book and surely NOT based on the real history, as many noble descendants of the "glorious and civilized Persian empire" have pointed out several times here. It is a tale told by Innocent mind of an ancient soldier who believed in higher order and values of his nation...those happen to be something like freedom from external oppression and tyranny, which are considered to be justification for most "just wars". Emphasizing the contrast between the real warriors for liberty and the slave soldiers might appear to someone as western propaganda, because it emphasizes the favorite story of western people about their common cultural origins derived from the well known ancient nationalist racist misogynist and rather egalitarian Greek culture. But there might be also rather artistic reasons for this kind of propaganda -it s a part of the psychology of extreme conflict and regression.In Lord of The rings there is used the same kind of moral dualism when depicting the fight between the good and the evil -on the other hand there are the elves who live harmony within the nature and then there are the Saruman and Sauron who are corrupted from the lust of power.I recommend this movie for people who enjoy comics, simplicity,violence, patriotism and a quite handsome men. Persians and other honorable people should watch something more sophisticated in which real heroes are imperialists and in which the real history is told.