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such a message be released at this particular time? Why would they want to rally their own nation behind such a widely debatable war?

The obvious answer, as I've already stated would be to cash in on the success of Sin City, though Frank Miller has a mass of work, and it would have surely have been just as easy to adapt one of these works, often attached to a already existing franchise or even to give him an original witting project to work on and still have a tag 'from the creator of Sin City'. It just seems a little too convent that a film with such a message of a nation and political system rallying behind and illegal war for the protection of their way of life be release amidst the hot bed of controversy that the war in Iraq has provoked.

To say as well that it was based on a book released be ore the war even stated would seem to be somewhat of a naive statement. How often have film adaptations been criticised by the materials original creator? Alan Moore has consistently attacked the film versions of his work for savaging his comics quoted as called Jonny Depp's character in 'From Hell' an 'Absenth swilling dandy', and to say that the film being told from the words of a story teller could be seen as a little too narrow.

When making a film on such a scale the wider context must be considered, what does this film have to say to the people watching? How does this relate to people today? What do we want it to say? What moralistic approach (if any) do we want? Basically what is the subtext of this story. A film can 't just be A man got up, went to the shop, bought some milk and went home again.

This argument is nothing new in cinema. Take William Cameron Manzies 1953 film "Invaders From Mars" or Don Siegel's 1953 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" for mere examples. The golden age of science fiction as far as I'm concerned. Yes we've had Blade Runner and a whole host of other 'prestiges' sci-fi films but films of this time are just so overly kitsch I can't help but like them. These films, and many like them have been highly documented as pieces of anti-communist propaganda. An unknown force infiltrating the minds of young Americans changing them into mindless, soulless slaves following blindly the slavish new regime from overseas, sorry did I say overseas I meant to say another planet, and the the case of Invaders from Mars, only defeated by the force of the mighty US Army. I can't help but see the comparison between films of this ilk and the likes of 300, it portrays

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