300 ?
It is so interesting how movies can provoke or intrigue people...
7000 Greeks and 300 Spartans stood in front of the barbaric Persian army of 300,000.
Well, I got my information from another movie, a docudrama that is supposed to be historically accurate.
About the new Hollywood movie 300... I personally do not watch 2hour long commercials.
I like movies and I do understand most movies are fictional, especially Hollywood movies. I might enjoy some of them from time to time. although the margin is growing awfully thin.
However, I can see how most people take movies as factual and some other people will be upset because of what some movies are promoting or suggesting.
What can I say? I don't even know why the majority of movies made, glorify the most retarded aspect of human history. War...
Then it happens, when you glorify something as retarded as war, you have to glorify human stupidity with it as well.
Now please do remember, historically I do believe Xerxes the king of Persia was wrong by going after revenge or for any other reason to attack another nation, but that does not make Persian people evil.
Now speaking of the docudrama I just watched. In this docudrama, which I should say was against Xerxes and pro Spartans (I think the aggressor is always evil Persian or otherwise) but it was interesting how Spartans are being described in it.
Remember, the Spartans are the saviors of democracy and freedom. They are the heroes.
Keep that in mind please, these are not my words, this actually was even mentioned in the Hollywood version as well.
Spartans would kill an unfit infant because he would have been of no use to the state. They would have abandoned the baby to starve to death.
Spartans would start to train boys as young as seven years old, make them fight more or less like psychopaths with each other and with their trainers. Full contact bare knuckle hand to hand combat with an adult twice their own size. You can imagine how much of a chance a seven year old boy has against a grown man.
Spartans would starve the young boys to make them able to fight under harsh circumstances. and also to learn how to steal. ( I have no idea what stealing has anything to do with warfare!!! )
Spartans would take the boys' individual identities away from them to make them single minded and efficient killers.
Spartans would physically torture and whip the boys to reward the one who would not break down. The family of the boys would be present to shout and scream at the boy not to pass out and endure the pain and keep the face of their family.
As they would get older, the training would just get harder, by teenage-hood they started to use weapons and some even got killed in the training.
Then to graduate, they had to strangle and kill one of their own slaves by ambushing him and not getting caught after they killed him.
Keep in mind, these are the heroes and in this docudrama they talk about all that with such pride. Heroes with no love no compassion and no compromise.
Now as the barbaric Persians? They had to learn philosophy, study knowledge and kill a lion to become a man, not to kill each other. Very barbaric, don't you think? ( Much to my surprise even this was mentioned in the docudrama. )
They say Spartans stood their ground against Persians for freedom and democracy. I understand democracy is merely the dictatorship of the majority and to be honest I could not see much of freedom by what Spartans did to their own children and their slaves. ( A nation that knew nothing but slavery to survive, now is defending freedom? )
At the end, with the loss of so many lives on both sides, Xerxes succeeds.
Now keep in mind that the same people that have learned from the same freedom and democracy which they defended, 150 years later attacked and took their revenge from Persians... more death for both sides.
The same democracy and freedom that was defended by such reptilian attitude, led us to where we are today. The corporate dictatorship. You begin to wonder what we have learned from our past.
I wish people could let go of the past and just look at themselves, the only person on this planet that we have the power to change is ourselves.
If we do not do that and just keep glorifying our own stupidity, we are heading for our own extinction, like our reptilian ancestors. There are no glory in war and war has never solved anything...
Now if you are looking for the evil, that would be the war itself and if you need a hero, you don't have to look far, just look within.
BTW, I hear a lot about this movie and how it is an adaptation from a comic book. Now it is like I write a fictional story and using factual names and places... if some organization makes a movie based on what I have written, all they are trying to do is to credit my fictional story as a fact... otherwise in an adaptation the makers of the movie have the power to change the names of the characters and the places in a way that would not collide with actuality. If they do not, therefore they are taking a comic book as factual. Imagine if I write a fictional story about a dictator by the name of Napoleon that was the leader of France and attacked England also wanting to conquer Europe. Now is that a fiction or a fact?
Be well and peace to you all
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