The Movie 300 Is a Movie About Propaganda

In 300 we're watching Dilios spin a yarn. He's not trying to give a factual account of the events that he witnessed, instead he is singing the ballad of Brave Leonidas and his 300 hop lights. The movie does not purport to show us what actually happened at Thermopylae. Rather, it purports to show how a character described those other people for the purposes of rallying them to war. It's a movie about propaganda,. which is why I might argue that contemporary Iranians should not be as offended by the movie 300 as many of them are.