[分享]Calm down, it's only a movie (Financial Times)
Posted: 2007-03-22 10:52
It's in today's FT, Arts section. Funny comments on 300, an in-season topic here.
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Calm down dear, it’s only a movie
By Nigel Andrews
Published: March 21 2007 17:29 | Last updated: March 21 2007 17:29
Paranoia is the price of piety. Fanatics see mischief and insult everywhere, much as the repressed see licentiousness. Iranians have got into such a tizz over 300 that we, the democratic and decadent west, can only respond in the manner of a Michael Winner TV commercial. “Calm down dear, it’s only a movie.”
Iran feels that to represent its Persian ancestors
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Calm down dear, it’s only a movie
By Nigel Andrews
Published: March 21 2007 17:29 | Last updated: March 21 2007 17:29
Paranoia is the price of piety. Fanatics see mischief and insult everywhere, much as the repressed see licentiousness. Iranians have got into such a tizz over 300 that we, the democratic and decadent west, can only respond in the manner of a Michael Winner TV commercial. “Calm down dear, it’s only a movie.”
Iran feels that to represent its Persian ancestors