Movie Review: 300

It is a fact that people ignites battle just to protect their loved ones, their countries, even their people. Even though they can't stay any longer in that battle. As long as they can protect it, they will protect it. Just like what this movie trying to explains to us.

In Sparta, they follow a certain tradition that they inherit from their ancestors. In this tradition, the newborn child(boy) was about to examined by an examiner, he observes the baby if he is weak or strong, if the baby is weak, the examiner let the weak baby dies and if the baby is strong, the baby survives. And if that baby reaches 10 year old, this boy was about to take survival examination, and if he does, if he survives, he can be  a spartan soldier or a spartan king. That king is king Leonidas.
The Persian king, Xerxes I, son of Darius I, who wants to get this reign from Leonidas, the King of Sparta. Xerxes I sends a Persian messengers to the Sparta to inform Leonidas about the negotiation. This messenger negotiates with Leonidas, he said this line, " Earth and Water", the earth means the land, and the water is the water that they will drink. Leonidas refused the deal, then they killed those Persian messengers. And that incident is the reason why the battle in Thermopylae is started. Before the battle, Leonidas requested to his general that he need 300 strong, fearless Spartan soldiers, and he also make a strategy, because he know that they were only few comparing to the other troupe, so he planned a backstabbing attack to defeat massive Persian soldiers. But before that, Leonidas consulted the ephor, their elder counsel, he said his plan to them but this ephor rejected his idea, they said unto Leonidas that there's no war between Sparta and Persia.

Leonidas is so disappointed in that situation and by the time that Leonidas left the place of the ephor, this ephor is turned out to be settled by Persian soldier, this Persian soldier paid them for their dignity. And that is the reason why they prohibited Leonidas to fight against Persian empire. Leonidas decided to not follow the counsel of the ephors, because he know that these ephor are corrupt. The Spartans troupe fought against Persian soldiers for 3 days. In the first day, almost hundred thousand Persian soldiers were killed by Spartan but unfortunately, two of them are killed by Persians. In the second day, the Spartans are not so lucky this time, because many of them are killed by Persians, because the Persian empire uses their sorcerers, these sorcerers uses long-range attacks, and they also uses bigger animals to fight, in fact, Leonidas have wounded by an Persian soldiers, and also, his general as I said last time, his son is brutally killed by an Persian soldier. The death of the general's son makes the general to lose hope in the middle of the battle. In the last day, this was the day that they defeated. In many aspects, they defeated when Ephiliates become a traitor, he leads other Persian soldiers and they went  to hot gates, the hot gates is the place where Spartans are planning to backstab Persian soldiers but unfortunately they were not. Even though they are losing, they were still fighting including their fearless king. And by the time that Leonidas is the one who left standing in the battleground and before he was killed, he throw a spear without aiming direction in the front of Xerxes I, but unfortunately it doesn't kill Xerxes, it only creates a wound on the right part of the face of Xerxes I.