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pretty much the same message.

Now I'm not here to rant of the control an censorship of the government through film and media and the messages they allow/want to get across and that we are all subject to this. What I'm saying is 300 is a jingoistic piece of trash cinema designed to get the 'home team fired up'. Though why shouldn't you have that message?

I don't consider myself a conservative though I do believe that this whole idea of political correctness has gone a little too far. From what started out as something that seemed to want to level the playing filed a little now seems to have given some, rather ridiculous, pseudo credence to white racism, though it seems to me those who bang on about political correctness end to be those merely dissatisfied with their own lives. Having said this I do not consider myself a liberal either.

Many people I have come into contact with throughout my life have ranted on about their liberality and fascism and all, yet these people will not entertain any other notion other than their own and will not take on board any other ideology which, to me at least, seems to be a rather fascist way of thinking in itself. But I suppose what I'm driving at is art is often used to get a political, social or ideological message across and more often then not is a 'liberal' message, or at least on that questions the status-quo, which is the beautiful thing about art, it can give us an outlet for these messages and as much as we may not like to here the message of a jingoistic flag waving pieces such as 300 or Sam Peckinpah's 1971 piece 'Straw Dogs' though they have just as much right to do so as another other as long as there is an argument within the film and a discussion within itself.

My only real concern is that 300 came under the guise of a summer block buster, 'fun for al the family' type film with the usual Hollywood glorification of violence dealing not with the consequences of killing, more that killing in the right instance is justified, but hidden beneath this was this jingoism and was devoid of a voice within the film for any reasonable debate on the other end of the spectrum. It just seemed to try and slip it by without any real warning or discussion.

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