thread: 2007-03-19 : Tonight we dine
On 2007-03-19, Kaare Berg wrote:
Maybe it is the european in me, maybe it is me sitting in safe little Norway who had like 70 troops in Iraq and then pulled them out.
Me in little Norway who due to our own laws can not extradite a suspected terroristleader, or little Norway that struggled with "well its been long, and she is sick now" when it came to extradite a terrorist who hijacked a plane and executed the captain of said plane.
But both here and over at story games people are getting bent out of shape over 300. A fictional visceral and stunningly visual story that happened to be based on a historical episode. A story that is so over the top macho that it makes Swartzenegger look like a "girly man". A movie based on a comic book. A movie that does not bog down in political and historical correctness, but blantantly give it the finger.
Why is it so?
Have the intelectuals on the other side of the pond (and yes I do consider you intelectuals) become so scarred by the state of affairs in your own house that you have to take affront by everything that isn't political correct.
I know the effects of racism, I deal regularly with both white on everything racism, and the inverse of it. I deal regularly with violence, I get paid to stop drunk/doped people from hurting each other, often I use violence to do so. I have served my country abroad and I have taken a moral stand when people from my platoon crossed the line according to our rules of engagement. I do not discriminate against women because the thought just doesn't occur to me.
Yet I thought 300 rocked. I was sated after watching it.
And I am trying to understand why you all seem to get on your indignant morally superior horses and condemm 300 so. Looking for political agendas, looking for symbolism and drawing comparisons that to me seem ... well like trying too hard.
300 has the following:
an unbelivably wonderfull visual style
macho quotes to fill a lifetime
and graphic violence in slow motion
it is great entertainment
it is noncomittal fun
it really isn't more than that
And to me that is ok, why isn't it so for you?
