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I have long filed the 300 under the category of movies that I like. I enjoyed the theme of the many versus the few and of course the super slow motion battle sequences that make killing look like its superawesome cool.
(http://youtu.be/VW4d3Kukcu8 – cut and paste into a another window for the fight scenes)
Superawesomeness aside though I did not think too much of the rest of the movie. It was spectacle, it was special effects and it was most certainly not about the wafer thin plot. Yet, the story itself was somehow familiar and possessed enough of that “different-sameosity” that made the 300 appealing.
The problem is that the familiar tropes and themes are culturally rooted in heteronormativty, ableism and racism. Not so good 300…
The cultural artifacts present in the film still reflect many of the normative standards of our society. When people talk of progress and equality one does need to look very hard to see how much work we still have left to do.
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Mystro
Dead Wild Roses 
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