The film 300 seems to break box office records in the U.S. It relates the story of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC between the Spartans and the Persians. But it is not just a depiction of a historical event. Not surprisingly the Persians are depicted as the bad guys. The movie is based on the book by Frank Miller, a radical Zionist. And the U.S. is preparing to bomb Iran.
It is a bit dangerous to criticize a movie if you haven't seen it. But from what I have read in the press (The Times: 2,500 years on, 300 Spartans get Iran in their sights again) it seems '300' has been made to demonize Iran and thereby prepare the way for a 21st century battle in which the U.S. is supposedly playing the role of the Spartans. That's maybe the biggest mistake: the Spartans won the battle, the U.S. is certainly going to lose the war in an even more catastrophic fashion compared to how they lost the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In the coming days I'll try to find a pirated copy on the streets of Beijing, which shouldn't be too difficult as NRC correspondent in Teheran Thomas Erdbrink bought an illegal copy at Teheran's Enghelab Square. His blog (in Dutch) Onze Man in Teheran is highly recommended to better understand the situation in Iran.
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