History: real or fictive?

Rating: 1/10 (10 March 2007)

It's easy to get carried away, with ooos's" and "aaah's", by the magic of the combination of sound and vision, of the heroic scenes and the music, by the narrative power of this movie, and not think for a moment how could it ever be possible for 300 men, no matter how strong, how decided, and how smart, to defeat an army three or four orders of magnitude larger. It's easy to be reluctant that real world defies our poetic interpretations, and has its own (cruel) way. Tragedy does happen, but only in a pathetic (or funny, if I may say so) way. That said, you might wonder how come the declaration of human rights is often referred to as the "prism" of human rights. Perhaps you will be blown away to learn that Cyrus (the father of the Persian emperor who's depicted in this movie as a barbarian)wrote the first declaration of human rights on a piece of rock that looked like a prism, 2500 years ago, when Bush's great grandfathers were chasing rabbits in western Europe, and raping each others' wives, and daughters. Don't take my word for it, do some research. Warner Bros once experienced a shameful failure in its mission of politically twisting the history: Alexander with its Golden Raspberry nomination. They took their lessons: If you wanna fool the audience, show them something exciting. And so, their new movie is based on visual effects. And of course, you don't need to be cognitive psychologist to know the Achilles' heel of humankind: Seeing Is Believing.