300 4K 2006

One could say that "this is one of the best films of this kind I have watched in a long time," but I will say that I have never seen anything like this. It is beautiful, tough, extraordinarily exciting, gorgeous, amazing, and not like always, and not like others. A movie that you want to watch more than once, and from which you are delighted as from some kind of masterpiece.

From the very beginning, it becomes clear that "300 Spartans" is a completely non-standard picture with its caustic specifics, unusualness, and fabulous content. But then, after all the same "300 Spartans" decide to walk to the fiery gates, it really becomes uncomfortable with what is happening on the screen. The gloomy pomegranate sky, gray sharp rocks, blood, meat, clinking iron, and a huge number of exaggeratedly ugly warriors of Xerxes, whose squalor speaks of an inner anger that makes them rot from the inside. These monsters are fabulous, and at the same time, not fabulously scary. In one of the burning villages, Leonidas sees a tree made of human bodies. This tree, "created" by non-human and not even animal forces, makes it clear what evil still awaits its warriors.

The whole film, to the very end, keeps in suspense, and in many respects, thanks to modern graphics, which brings a special atmosphere to the legend familiar to many. This film was not originally a reality, and there is no need to perceive it as something not alive, not correct, or exaggerated. This is a fairy tale that has been decorated with modern brushes by contemporary artists. They endowed her with their imagination, and did everything, whatever it turned out like everyone else, and they succeeded. We have old masterpieces that make you breathless with admiration, but the new is what is as little as possible like the old. For me, "300 Spartans" turned out to be a new film about which I want to talk and argue.