300

Loved it. Sorry I didn't post a review of the film earlier when I caught it fresh on the screens in SIN. What else is there to say. Love the sepia visuals and the gorgeous mise-en-scene. Each frame, an exquisite work of art. Gerard Butler was amazing. To hell with historical accuracy plot, what did you expect from a comic book adaptation. Iran is crazy to think that this is about them.



And yes Xerxes looks like Kumar.



In the words of the exceptional Mr Dan Savage, who summed the film with his usual wit:

The Persian army is an armed gay-pride parade, a threat to all things decent and, er, Greek. The king of the Spartans—among the most notorious boy-fuckers in all of ancient history—dismisses Athenian Greeks as weak-willed "philosophers and boy lovers." The Persian emperor? An eight-foot-tall black drag queen—mascara, painted-on eyebrows, pink lip gloss. Emperor RuPaul is positively obsessed with men kneeling in front of him. Why gay up the Persians? So that straight boys in the theater can identify with the Spartan king and his 300 soldiers—all of whom appear to have been recruited from and outfitted by the International Male catalog.

What isn't up for debate is the film's politics. The only times the Persian army doesn't look like a gay-pride parade in hell, it looks like a crowd of madly chanting Islamic militants. And if the Spartan king has to break the Spartan law to defend Spartan freedoms? Well, sometimes a king's gotta do what a king's gotta do. Because, as the queen of Sparta points out, freedom isn't free. And, yes, she uses exactly those words.

George Bush is going to blow a load in his pants when he sees this movie.