Laziness procrastinates my blog writing
I am lazy, I admit, especially when it comes to not getting paid for writing. Albeit my keen interest in reading blogs posted by my friends, I’m just merely lazy (or rather not having a clue at all on what to write) to start my own.
Oh well, I guess I am better off writing nonsense in business plan, where at least I have better ideas on the content layout and bluff my way all through it.
Recently I’ve been extremely busy engrossing myself with loads of works and traveling around (on business trips, of course), and been ignoring my family and friends for quite awhile – which, to my wife it may appear to be lame excuses for not accompanying her. So, I decided to give myself a break last evening and spent some time with my wife, watching movie – the popular 300. Ah yea, you may say that watching movie ain’t a great plan for accompanying someone, after all two persons ‘get together’, but not talking to each other (it’s not allowed in a movie!). Ok, a bit of deviation from what I initially intended to write about.
Come back to 300. If you asked me whether or not I have enjoyed that show, I’d say yes to a certain extend. I like the graphics, the pace of the movie, and the actions, maybe purely for entertainment’s sake. From the angle of the story, I’d say it’s so-so and same ol’ same ol’! Sometimes I wonder why the western production, especially if it’s about war between the good and the evil (well, depending on which side you favor!), why must the main character(s) using old cliche like “We fight as a free man!”; “Remember this day, as it belongs to you for the rest of your life!”..blah blah blah! Don’t they all sound all too familiar? If my memory serves me right, I heard those for the first time in Brave Hearts and then they kept cropping up in other similar movies since then.
The second thing I find disillusion in this show is, I can’t really differentiate between the good (Spartans) and the evil (Xerxes’s Persian army). Although those 300 Spartans, supposedly went to war at insurmountable odds against the massive Persians to defend their home and their wives and children; the director had made it such that as if those men whose valor and sacrifice apparently came out to glorify themselves (they were ‘born to be warriors and preferably should die in war). Don’t you agree with me that they fought for the sake of violence? It resembles the Americans’ cow boys’ spirits as well as the Japanese’ boshido way.
President Bush would have enjoyed watching this show, I truly turst, because it’s definitely beneficial for him to get more ideas in creating more lame excuses to invade others’ countries, while projecting it as a heroic-save-the-world mission!
March 18th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
War is stupid. War seldom solve anything, if ever. In fact, the persian weren’t even that evil and the spartan weren’t so good either, just fighting for their own interest. Dying for glory maybe fine, by dying for some
hyprocrite like Bush sitting comfortably in the office worried more about self legacy and interest is another thing. So does that make me a leftist?
March 19th, 2007 at 7:44 am
Yes, war at most of the time only seves the propaganda of people who are power, at the expense of lives of the commoners and their families.
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:18 am
i just enjoying the movie, it is still the best plot within it’s catagory
March 24th, 2007 at 10:07 am
Yup, as I said, from the entertainment point of view, I really like it.