Last night, I dined in Hell

Well, not really but I will gladly and proudly say that I am among the first Malaysians to see the movie 300. You haven't heard of 300? I pity you.. You ought to get out of the tempurung once in a while dude, this movie is utterly awesome!

The movie is set in Sparta during that age when people kill each other manly using swords. People now are cowards, they shoot from afar and then hide behind walls.. Sheesh! Anyway, though the timeline is real the movie was based on Frank Miller's graphic novel of the same name and not some history books which makes the movie more of a fantasy movie along the same line as Lord of the Rings and what not. It tells about a Spartan king who went to war against an invading Persian army which is quite typical actually if not for the fact that the Spartans consisted of 300 soldiers while their adversary is within a million. Yes, it is true but before your logic start to fire up, remind yourself that this is a fantasy movie where imposible is nothing and they just do it.

So that's about everything you need to know. If I say more I might as well ruin the ending for you isn't it? Well, what's cool about this movie to me is not actually the story line which is quite predicable but infact it is the cinematography.. It is silver screen art at its best. The dark colours, the stop motion, the impossible nature, the gruesome Persian horde, the larger than life King Xerxes with his harems.. It is stunning.

Anyway, the movie is 18PL and there's a reason for it. This movie is definately not the movie you want to bring your primary school syblings or parents for that matter since the scenes are horrific and yup, disturbing. Honestly disturbing. Nevertheless, the censorship board did a good job by not slaughtering the movie; most explicit scenes are still intact, they only cut one scene which involves a nude girl with some horny old men. Thank God.. that is disturbing indeed.

Anyway, enough chating folks. Get off that couch and go se this movie. Meanwhile, I think I'll go for Mukhsin la pulak.

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