Do not twist history

Rating: Null/10 (6 December 2004)

As far as Alexander being bi I think that most of the people don't understand why this is a problem. Over the deeds of Alexander right now two nations are taking ownership Greeks and Macedonians. (I am not saying that anybody is right as you will see if you continue reading.) They are both orthodox Christians and with their religious beliefs it is wrong to be gay or bi. So in their eyes Oliver Stone just did a moral crime against their cultural heritage. So you can understand the problems you cause when you hurt someone's history.
As to the film I think that maybe Mel Gibson would have been a better choice for director. From what I could notice in the movie Oliver Stone had some problems with history. The great battle for Persia Alexander calls his men Macedonians and then shouts "FOR Greece"?????. If you read history books you will see that in that time there was no Greece (there was Sparta, Athens... cities states). Alexander was king of Macedonia and he led the Macedonian army that fought for Macedonia. I will stop here to avoid offending somebody.
For me the greatest problem is not that Alexander was presented as bi, but that that he was totally psychologically unstable, with five nervous breakdowns thought the movie and this man conquered the entire civilized world? For the end the bottom-line is that the movie was unclear, with a lot of flashbacks that were too important to be just that and in part not according to history but every effort must be valued so it is worth to watch it even if you don't like it.