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March 10, 2007
into the jaws of death rode the 300....
I saw 300 tonight. I cannot imagine a more politically fascist or reprehensible film. I really really wanted to like it, but there was absolutely no way around reading the "freedom isn't free... it needs to be paid for in blood" thing as anything but hawk propaganda speaking directly to unthinking warmongering. Now I have nothing against seeing hot male flesh (rawr!). However, do they not realize that this display might conflict with the blatant homophobia of the film just a teensy bit? It was so uncritical and non-selfreflexive that it made my brain bleed. It was a bastion of compulsory heterosexuality and saying that real men are completely unable to communicate with other humans in ways that don't involve sharp objects. Also, facile interpretations of physiognymy (he's ugly! he must be bad!) got old. It was violent, but I am not opposed to a little gratuitous decapitation here and there. How did this film manage to make decapitation boring?? Sigh. I tried so so so hard to read it against the grain, but "freedom loving" folks suiting up to go kill brown people didn't give me much to work with.
These are pretty funny, though:
Spartaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Pastaaaa!!!
The real Sparta.
And in less morally bankrupt news:
I can't get this song out of my head: Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Catch You. Also, the DRESSES. OMG! Someone mentioned that it was a little too "bunny-boiler" for her, but that is part of why I like it. Long Live Hysterical Women!!!!!
On the sewing front, I made another dress (well, i have to hem it still...) but I forgot the cord to the camera so no pix until I'm back from Boston after spring break.
Posted by loyd0008 at March 10, 2007 06:15 PM