300 is the adaptation of Miller's homonymous comic about the famous Battle of Thermopylae. Leonidas I, king of Sparta, participates with the Athenians in the war against the Persians led by Xerxes, who is part of a much superior army. The goal of the Emperor of Persia was to seize Greece, which started the war.
300 begins by telling us how the Spartans overcame the cruel treatment meted out to children scrupulously to become adults trained to become soldiers. At the age of seven, they are separated from their families and trained to be perfect warriors.
Personal glory does not exist and the militarization of daily life is the key to satisfying the ideal of the state, the only way to achieve glory. And that is how we meet young Leonidas, the act is recounted from his youth by one of the generals.
Efialtes' betrayal will ruin his plans, although from the beginning it is clear that victory is complicated.
Even more important than the facts is the way the film is told: the points of view, the impressionist technique to account for most of the moments by describing many details, that of the camera that as soon as it slows down when pick up speed, the script that hides its secrets and the fantastic touch of exaggeration both in the enemy in the cults and in the Spartan customs. All the images give off an epic tone that borders on comedy because of its excess.
His vocation is not, not even from afar, ideological or rather he seeks pure and simple entertainment in a dazzling aesthetic that finds its apogee in the oracle of women, the exaltation of the body to the body. of the sacrifice. community.
In a way, there is a huge contradiction in the fact that the Spartans are presented as freedom of trial for the way they treat each other but it is an incongruity of more than one film with many weak points, of its main virtue: its exaggeration.
Why 300 is a great movie
Epic story, powerfully told and visually stunning.
Actors who express incredibly well the courage of their characters and the courage with which they face the fateful destiny. Special mention for Gerard Butler, who reflects a very human, brave and determined king.
The dialogues, loaded with phrases to remember.
Intense fights and very well shot. I celebrate the choreography of the fights, very shocking and in every way.
Final apotheosis. I still don't know anyone who has seen it just once.
