How Western Civilization was born

Rating: Null/10 (24 March 2007)

I give it 10/10 not because of special effects or action or anything like that. It was really refreshing to see AT LAST a Hollywood movie in which OUR GUYS were not the EVIL ones while the other guys were not the only good, the enlightened, and the oppressed by us. It has become a tradition that everything related to our own Western Civilization is questioned and disavowed by the left-dominated world of politics and show-business. (I bet it wasn't the intention of the creators, but never mind.) What those critics fail to recognize is that IT IS ONLY THE QUALITY OF OUR CIVILIZATION TO QUESTION ITSELF. There were too many fanatically critic movies already, example being the very bad Kingdom of Heaven in which all Muslims are - of course! - so civilized - everyone to a man! The Christians - on the contrary (again: of course). As for the Thermopile battle: we owe everything to those brave men (and to many others: philosophers, rulers, law-makers, ...). We would not have the science if not the Greek's concept of truth; nor the private property if not the Roman law; nor the human rights, the abolition of slavery, the emancipation of women if not the Chrisitan concept of human being and human dignity. Observe the other civilizations: neither developed all those achievements. We should start to appreciate what we are and stop being ashamed of everything.