300 and what it means for your weekend...

Saw a late showing of the new 'Gladiator/Rome/Sin City...to...the...MAX' film '300' Tuesday night. Films like this are funny on several levels, course I can only speak of a few of those basically because I'm lazy, and don't have the time to think to seriously on them. Films of this nature are mainly geared to men, and all men at that. From the comic book-fantasy clad high schools rejects to the muscle bound, ex high school football players future U.S. marine officers. While some simply love the violence, and blood lust, seeing themselves as hard as the fictional Spartans portrayed on the screen, others want loyal adaptations to graphic novels they've read and brought to life in their minds. But, the side I think is instilled with many is the unity and noblity characterized by the doomed 300 warriors. In an America split by war, a lower and upper class divide, and a lust for Hollywood stardom and money, many long for a simple driven life style. A life style that is about family, the protection of one's freedom and way of life, and the ability to do anything, ANYTHING to carry on a certain people's heritage. In a country that is in lack of leadership, we want a King Leodias(sp.) to follow in to the gates of Hades itself if needed, and want to fight to death no matter how painful it is on the way to its finality. We want the scars, and punctures that come along the way, and the sterness followed by hearty laughs as we look at fellow comrades at the fallen dead of the wicked around us. This is a film of yearning, and dreaming of a life that will never be in our soft pink lives, and fluffy pathed futures. This will and desire will carry on, at least until Friday when a new wave of feature films, with different paths of thought opens at a theater near you.