Originally Posted by
ThE)DreAmeR
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....First of all it's not at all random the fact that the enemy are the Persians . The association between Persia-Iran can be easily made by most people . The movie sets the Thermopylae as the western civilization against the asian barbarians . Secondly , the leader of the good guys is Leonidas the leader of a military , oligachic Sparta , that is the most retarded version of the ancient greek society .The democratic athens is a state of effeminate philosophers who in the end will unite under the commandament of the "capable" Spartans against the enemy coming from the East . Why for example they didn't make a movie about the battle in marathonas where the few not only stood up against the Persians but also won , if the makers' purpose was to exclaim the importance of resisting against the powerful ? Because simply the athenian army was made from the athenian people , an army of farmers, labores, commercials , an army elected by the athenian people under democratic circumstances . On the contrary the army of Sparta was an army of mercenaries just like as the american army it is today . War machines , with a high sense of honour of course but professionals too . So reviews talking about militarism and military apotheosis are correct .
Finally , the means . The movie commits a flossy propaganda that reveals its cause . Leonidas did not go to Thermopylae violating the rules , but as a general of a consociation of 31 cities-state as it was decided at the conference held in Korinthos at 481 BC.but as we can see in the movie Leonidas violates the spartan law , a fact historically unacceptable due to the fact that spartans highly respected laws and rules .The point is obvious , many of the USA acts are totally illegal and violate internation laws but the american government tries to justify them claiming that "the cause justifies the means" ..