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Good friends hosted movie night in their garage turned theatre with the full complement of treats and we watched 300, a movie I knew nothing about. The flick features a stylized account of a historical period I breezed through sometime in the 10th or 11th grade.

Apparently, once upon a time (480 or so BC), the Persian emperor Xerxes tried to take Greece but fell into hard times in Sparta when Leonidas and 300 of his elite soldiers held off countless warriors until reinforcements could arrive.

The movie is about that Battle of Thermopylae.

For me it was one of those flicks that time-machined me in and I appreciated the moment of escape! The battle scenes were stunning as the soldiers worked together in synchronous unison to defend their land. The 300 were as one. When they died, they all died together. That's not the ending though so I didn't give it away.