300

This week I will be reviewing 300. This is a movie based off a graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley. When you sit down to watch 300 you have to mentally prepare yourself for stunning battle sequences and hauntingly beautiful scenery. The director Zack Snyder did a great job bringing this comic to the big screen.

The battle scenes keep you captivated as you watch in slow motion as a person id decapitated or has a limb severed. It is all so brutal but also done in an artistic way. The blood that sprays out of every last wound is the only color to be found in almost the entire film.

As you watch you become hypnotized by the landscapes that are before you. They are not bright and colorful but quite the opposite. The scenery is cold and dark almost cruel in many of the scenes. That doesn’t mean that all of the backdrops are like this but most are. The use of color, or I should say lack of the use, really makes the movie. If it were colorful or just had more, it would feel fake. The way it sits the movie seems real and gritty.

300 was a movie that really opens one’s eyes to different styles of film. It is very beautiful in its own way and can stand up to multiple viewings. Every time I watch it I am taken in by the imagery. I give 300 a 9 out of 10 with a strong watch it if not buy it.