gile pendek summary review: 300 & mukhsin

• 300

we started the marathon with this movie. the original intention was that we could get back early since mukhsin would only take about 95minutes while this movie is almost a good 120 minutes. turned out to be a wise choice.

i was intrigued to see this movie since i saw the trailer in the cinema before ghostrider was screened. you know, those cine-ads. i am not a movie buff nor a critique, so this review is gonna be plain & simple.

leonidas was born a king. a tough spartan, too. he was raised to be a fighter; all spartan men are his restlessness defies his racing, tactful mind. when he kicked the berlagak persian messenger into the death hole, he ignited war and anger on xerxes' side. the king himself knew the war would be between sparta against the world.

so, he picked 300 strong spartan men who would fight till the last beat of the heart, the ones who had sons to bear their names even after the menggerutu monsters and the oracle (whom were bribed by the enemy and a traitor) forbade him to go to war for the sake of apa jadah majlis tah. oh, spartan kings went for blessings from the oracle before they went to war.

when his advisor, theron and the council queried his decision to go to war with the 300 men, leonidas coolly said,

"oh, i'm just taking a walk. those are my 300 bodyguards."

well, who would imagine a victory of 300 men against the world, logically speaking kan? unless it's the battle of badar. so, they fought to death after another traitor spilled the bean on the weakness of the hot gates. but their deaths inspired the whole of greece to unite in the line of democracy, fighting xerxes.

the thing about this movie was the way leonidas planned every attack, how every single unit is responsible to protect the whole team, especially the ones on his right and left from the neck to the knee. but then, that's why leonidas is king, not just another comrades. it is interesting to see spartan's coming of age test (called a-go-go agoge), how leonidas lured a big wolf to the corner of his hiding and killed it when it was stuck at the small corner and came home to his people unharmed.

300 is with a lot of effects that look minimal, be it sound (nice soundtacks) or visual and it is 18PL mind you. definite no-no for kids and those who couldn't stand the horror of beheadings and sight of bloods.

queen gorgos, wife of leonidas delivered these;

only spartan women gave birth to real men.

go, my love. you will do what a free man will do for his freedom.

.....to be continued.....