300 in 30 minutes

Sitting in a classroom with a group of 40 students, 30 girls and 10 boys while they watch the movie 300 is a fascinating experience (once again subbing but this time for History). With each slay of the sword, each head that is cut off, each arrow that thrushes threw a person’s body, you hear screams and see the disgusted facial expressions. Some people laugh; guess it is hysteria or nervousness. One kid has just raised the board and covered the subtitles, so I stop writing to see what’s going on because the audience is screaming and cursing. I hear Ohs and ahs and look back at the screen to see what is going on in the movie; a movie that I have watched in 30 minutes.

 At this point you may be wondering how a movie as long as this one can be seen in a 30-minute session as suggested in the title. Well, when the movie came out on DVD, I borrowed it from the video club. I had heard so many good comments about it and my expectations where very high. I made some popcorn (movies are better when there is popcorn), got comfortable on the couch and turned on the DVD player. I watched and when the first battle started, I fast forwarded the DVD. From then on, I did that for every battle scene and only stopped to watch the scenes that had dialogue. Battle. Dialogue. Battle. Dialogue. Battle. Dialogue. And in 30 minutes: THE END.

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(Written April 11, 2013)

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