Does anyone else sometimes wish

[Darth Rotor]

Yeah, that's exactly the feeling I got when I saw it. I was embarrassed that they gave this OBL-type character so much glorification. And people bought in to that. I keep saying to people who saw it : "Don't you think they are making people like OBL the heros? Don't you think that's sick?" And they all reply: "the government should be afraid of its people"...

Bunch of idiots, they are.

He's blowing up buildings for crying out loud! And the Nathalie Portman character got brainwashed. Yeah, what a hero allright...

And what about that "there are no coincidences" crap. I literally want to punch someone in the mouth when someone says that to me. ("Oops, my fist briefly coincided with you jaw there, sorry")

Hi

V for Vendetta was written in the 1980's as a graphic novel. The story was more or less the same in the film, with a few details cut out in underground / crime figure relations.

The core target of Moore's pointed finger was over controlling government in a fairly standard English based dystopian future.

Moore's solution is anarchy, out of which allegedly a "free" country will arise, but like most anarchists, he forgets that anarchy, in practice, is a temporary state that is typically followed in revolutions by a return to tyranny or authoritarian control of whoever filled the power vacuum.

The Who, rock band, at least understood that, in the clincher line from "Won't Get Fooled Again:" meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Moore's story is also a bit of a rant for diversity, and against institutional bigotry, but it confuses means and ends. The core story line is about means, to end a dictatorship, but never addresses the true end, which is how the newer, better future is formed and structured. All it was, as a story, is "toss the buggers out since they aren't nice and have killed off all of the art fags."

The film couldn't really improve on that and remain even closely linked to the graphic novel, so the film ends as emptily as the graphic novel: OK, the wicked witch is dead, what now?

I still enjoyed it enough not to regret the purchase of the ticket.

DR

 

[brodski]

Yeah, that's exactly the feeling I got when I saw it. I was embarrassed that they gave this OBL-type character so much glorification. And people bought in to that. I keep saying to people who saw it : "Don't you think they are making people like OBL the heros? Don't you think that's sick?" And they all reply: "the government should be afraid of its people"...

Bunch of idiots, they are.

He's blowing up buildings for crying out loud! And the Nathalie Portman character got brainwashed. Yeah, what a hero allright...

And what about that "there are no coincidences" crap. I literally want to punch someone in the mouth when someone says that to me. ("Oops, my fist briefly coincided with you jaw there, sorry")

protagonist != hero, V is a class A *****, he repeatedly admits himself that he is a monster who not only deserves to die, but needs to die. It makes for an entertaining story, but anyone who takes their political philosophy from comic book characters has bigger problems frankly.
Also the V character is nothing like the real fawlks, or even the popular image of fawlks, he’s painted pretty clearly as a nutter who happens to have fixated on a warped interpretation of a mythologized historical failure, look at V’s anti- catholic/ high Anglican killing spree. I find it more interesting to see V as a character warped by a misunderstanding of history, her uses the 1812 overture to celebrate freedom FFS!