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Date: 2007-03-30 04:20 pm (UTC)Sparta... who was much closer to the Soviet Union than freedom and reason loving Athens (though the whole citizen distinction is not lost on me there)
Sparta... who in the movie denegrates Athenians for being boy-lovers when the exact opposite prejudice can be found -- in fact, there is more than one alligation that the Spartans were a mainly homosexual/bisexual (I won't say gay as that implies much more than I wish) culture as the boys entering the army were given a mentor - and part of that relationship was sexual.
Sparta... which looked surprisingly like American masculinity and Persia somehow takes on the characteristics of feminity? (Forget decadent.. that man was a drag queen!) Oh - and how about the depiction of the lesbians when tempting the hunchback?
Or the scene in front of the council? "Freedom is not free?" I remember one advertizement calling it the west's first battle for freedom.
All I'm saying is that it's perpetrating some very proto-American memes while using as contrast the ancestor to a country currently in rising conflict with the United States.