I'm here for a second brush.
The first time I watched it in high school, it was over casually, and I didn't like all movies with war and blood.
I'll watch it again today, I still don't like it if I don't like it, but I appreciate the director's performance.
Instead of using documentary techniques to restore history, it exaggerated the bravery of the Spartans with exaggerated dramatic techniques.
In fact, it completely reproduces Greek culture. Talk about Greek culture.
The primitive Greek culture advocates the beauty of the human body, the fitness of the whole people, and the appearance of the body even determines the rank; openness, advocating free will, attaching importance to the self-cultivation of citizens, and a loose city-state system. It was considered a very advanced culture in the slavery society at that time, not a barbarian. What the Greeks advocated for the human spirit was balance and harmony, and they regarded this mental state as health and beauty. Greek culture places great emphasis on and respects human reason, but they refuse to make reason a rigid constraint, because they fully understand that there is another natural force in the human body that wants to break through the constraints of reason, that is, human emotions In part, they specifically used a Dionysian god for this purpose to represent this power.
Therefore, the spiritual world of the Greeks must be composed of two forces, "reason" and "emotion". If we Chinese use "yin and yang" to build the basic structure of the world, then the Greeks use "rationality" and "sensibility" as the basic structure. Just as we Chinese believe that the "balance of yin and yang" is the best state of existence, the Greeks believe that the balance of reason and sensibility is the best state of existence.
Although their city-state system adopts a democratic system and gives each citizen a lot of freedom and power, the ancient Greeks never over-inflated their ego or liked self-expression, because each of them has a common standard in mind, that is, for the noble , Perfect recognition becomes their common mentality.
Their philosophy also believes that it is good to put reason above other things, especially emotions and desires. When the status of the individual is not elevated above divinity or above some higher ideal, then the existence of this is the key difference between ancient and modern.
What could be greater than the difference between these two lives? This difference can be explained in two sentences: the life and spiritual realm of the ancient Greeks are simple, our life and spiritual realm are complex. Compared with the ancient Greeks, how different are we modern people? Differences in class, race, country, occupation... Modern people are locked in various small cages made by themselves by these various differences. , surrounded by a whole host of demands and annoyances of his own.
Fortunately, the ancient Greeks did not have many of these differences. They were not so far from their original state, they were closer to natural life, and were less enslaved by excessive civilization. As a result, their minds and reason were less tortured or fatigued. Therefore, the ancient Greeks had a clear and healthy mind, and their thoughts and feelings remained in a state of simplicity.
The director vilified or demonized the villain, exaggerated the grandeur of the war, and made people feel like they were reading Homer's epics. It's just such an aesthetic, and it doesn't necessarily work now.
Seeing the scolding in the comment area, there are comments saying that there are 300 warriors and 300 meatloaf. Most of the concepts embodied in the film are indeed outdated. After all, it is the culture of thousands of years ago, and it still reflects the struggle between man and man and between man and nature.
Fight against traditional slavery with free will, sacrifice for the revolution, and all for glory; gather the elites and fight against the scumbags; one person decides, everyone follows, By Spartan low, u will stand fight and dead -- either do it or do it Die; no prisoner no live, drive out the enemy and kill him. Everything looks simple and clear.
The current culture is more about following the trend, cooperation, fault tolerance, and innovation. It is more about the survival of the "fittest", not the strong; the individual is always bounded rationality and limited judgment; in the current culture, let alone sacrifice, team building does not want to participate, and it is difficult for the team to give a sense of control and honor.
Although many concepts are no longer "fittest", I still have a limited advocacy of free will and the sun god; at the same time respecting reality.
By the way, in the real history of the sun god Sparta king, it was a misjudgment and the wrong person who led to the failure of the hot spring war, not a conspiracy. There is no glory of perfection in respect of reality.
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