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300 (2006)
A lame movie
It is not the complete fabrication of history where a cult-like city where slaves number 7 times free men repeatedly calls the Persian army slaves (where slavery was not as common). Nor is it the reversal of the status of women who for the most part in Greece lived almost as cattle while in Persia they could hold important positions and wealth.
Nor is it the strange xenophobia and constant reminder of the monsters Persians are and that they come from the shadow and that Sparta defends Europa. Nor is it for all other historical falsifications and inaccuraties.
No the reason this movie sucks is the terrible acting, the ludicrous dialoge and the cringe-inducing attempt at manipulating emotion. The strategic evocation of the women and children the testosterone-ravaged drones supposedly fights to defend. It is the lamest piece of propaganda one could possibly imagine.
And who thought Gerard Butler would make a good Leonidas?
The Blue Book (2009)
A well-crafted and respectful documentary
This documentary follows the scholar Sarafian as he responds to the turkish parlamentary accusations of the Blue Book being fabrications and propoganda.
The documentary does a very good job of showing the different aspects of turkish denialism and the glaring removal of everything connected to the Armenians who lived in the land.
We get to see the young Turkish academian who takes great offense at Sarafians book, calling him agent of CIA, FBI and such other nonsense. How he verges on threatening Sarafian (stating it is an insult to turkey which is a prison able offense). This attitude carries the more weight when knowing it is far from being a fringe attitude. Not long after this the Armenian journalist Grant Dink was shot in Istanbul by nationalists who also had scholars on their hitlist.
And then we also get to see how some people (i think they were journalists) actually are open to engaging with the evidence.
This is a somber documentary with no exuberance or unverified claims.