The Movie 300

These pictures belong to the movie 300 in which Leonidas; Spartan commander can overcome Xerxes and his millennial hosts. Unfortunately, I could not watch this movie yet, and then commenting on it is difficult for me.

In this movie, as described, Persian soldiers are characterized like monsters and barbarians. This, obviously, is offensive and inflammatory for all Iranian who consider their ancient past to be their historical majesty and seriously glory in. Subsequently, we sign a petition addressing the 300' producers in order to show our protest. "Sorry for this historical distortion", I wrote as my comment, "probably, a western sophisticated one should be aware of dangerous outcomes of such a mythologizing the history!" Any mythologizing, in fact, ignores some aspects of the reality and reflects it as misshaped, exaggerated and unreal. How we can believe these pictures while we believe, at the same time, that the first universal declaration of human rights is historically written by such monsters as them! By "historical distortion", I meant this.

Of course, I can certainly accept that a movie can take a mythical sphere. But I do not think we are permitted to advance in mythologizing to such an extent that we offend the other nations, particularly considering present political climate in which we, as it were, are about to a catastrophic war. Apparently, audiences in Berlin have asked such questions as which one was Bush, Leonidas or Xerxes?! This means they are also completely observant of the movie's political connotations under the circumstances.

As far as our political authorities are concerned, they are not, to my mind, honest in challenging over the nuclear problem. In fact, they are trying to change over more important problems, that one of them, for instance, is the problem of human rights to the problem for which all Iranian are ready to support. In the nuclear game, they are aggressive rather than defendant and this is one of the possible way by which they can be supported by all Iranians all over the world. In the other problems they are trying to forget and put away, the nation is aggressive and the regime is defendant. Another way by which the regime can ally the nation with itself is provoking nationalism among them. And this is exactly what producers of the movie 300 are helping to be done.

It seems for most of countries of the world what they call nuclear threat of Iran is much more important than human rights. The fact that human rights in its first cradle is now in danger, is not deniable. I wish the UN concentrate on the problem of human rights in Iran instead of nuclear program. After all, according to the NPT protocol, we are right logically to access nuclear technology. But, the council of human rights of UN has put aside Iran's folder unfortunately.