300 in the line of Tom and Jerry

Rating: 5/10 (18 April 2007)

300 or Z00?! That is supposed to present a historical event ; a war between 300 Greek brave ,handsome, caring, lovely soldiers with some million ugly, brutal, mean Persian soldiers under the ruling of a gay-like freak king ( Khashayar Sha). They fought and through altruistic deed died. The audiences are supposed to leave the theater with eyes full of tears. It reminds me an ill minded MR. X gossiping about a third person, MR Y revealing no positive point, showing extreme hatred and complexes that MR Y has aroused in him. You , the authorities of movie makers and creators of great arts, please teach me "is it how a movie should go?" I can tolerate "Not without my daughter" though Dr. Mahmoody was my professor of anesthesiology in Shahid Beheshti University. I know him in Person. I can tolerate "Not without my daughter" because is was what a wife normally writes about her husband after the break. She may mix up and expand her personal hatred to the hatred of a whole nation. But "300" is supposed to show a historical event. We learn history from literature and movies. What is the lesson? "Ahhh... these ugly , brutal Persians are reproducing and they are armed by nuclear energy. Soon this world is not a safe place to live with the Persians so let us destroy them or at least do not object if they are destroyed." Well, I am not talking for all Persians as I personally enjoy American movies. But, ...is it how a movie script should go? Is life events so black and white ? It is a great pity for Warner Brothers and Mr. Zack Snyder. The total story is a fake. Get back through the history. While Iranian had Senate and they were the first to talk about human rights, how come the movie is trying to show Iranian wild and without culture. Persian Empire and their power was equal to Greece or Romans. I know Hollywood is careful in its tone when it talks about other nations ("Indiana Jones in Temple of Doom" shows that the writer and the director know they should not generalize the evil deed to all Indians- and it is explicitly stated there- or"Me, Myself, and Irene is a comedy of a betrayed husband by the wife and a black ...caring that not all blacks are of that kind- and many many other movies), but when it comes to Iranians it is all black. I suppose Americans are just repeating what Iranians nagging about themselves. I score the movie as 5 stars out of ten because this sort of movies ring the alarm for us ,Iranians, that adhering to Islamic revolution does not mean to humiliate and disgrace Iran's past history of Persian kingdom. 300 against a million Persian is a joke on the line of Tom and Jerry cartoon produced by WB. Mitra Ahmad Soltani, an Iranian