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MediaMovie • 2023-05-23

Yes, four and a half stars. Hear me out. A stylistic masterpiece that is exactly what it's meant to be. Since it has been written elsewhere, I'll quote this Reddit user in a thread on controversial movie takes1:

"Dilios is the narrator of the whole movie. The story that we are watching is the same story he is telling around the campfire. What we are watching is a visual depiction of the oral story telling tradition - hyperbole and all. So when we see Persians for example, the reason why they are hideous is not because Persians are ugly, but because the storyteller would describe his enemy as being monsters. When we see the giant elephants, it’s not because historical elephants are that large, but it’s because a story teller may describe them as “being the size of mountains”."

Here's the Wikipedia entry for this character: Aristodemus of Sparta2

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