V for Vendetta review by pingjing

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V for Vendetta review

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UPDATED: Friday, August 12, 2022 12:42
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 6:04 AM

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Originally posted by JubelLate:
In my opinion, it wasn't a bad movie, but the government was so cruel and singleminded that it wasn't believable to me, it was charactiture.

To me, the message of the movie was too over the top. Governmental evil like in Serenity is easy to believe because politicians are eager to keep their hands clean and often use despicable methods justified by noble goals. In V, the politicians seemed drunk with power and antagonized anyone they saw fit. Too blunt, too unbelievable.

If you believe that the single mindedness and cruelty of the government was unbelievable, boy do people REALLY need to pay attention to what's going on in the world. This story had a powerful message, and one that needs to be listened to. Do not ignore it! Or it will happen. We as Americans are too blind to the reality of what goes on in the world because we are lazy, we are arrogant. This is a true example of how we think...we just shrug it off because it's not gonna really happen, not to us, because we're America, we're superior.

This is definitely something to go see if you haven't yet. Whether or not you like the graphic novel better, this is still something that needs to be seen and heard.

Psolaris

"Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'"

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 9:42 AM

JUBELLATE

Listen, I'm getting sick and tired of people telling me I'm being naive because I felt the movie was being unrealistic. This movie was about fear and control and I feel that the series of events that led to the election of a very dictator-like leader was too extreme. It was too obvious. If the movie was trying to warn us about electing dictators because of fear, it didn't explore the process that led to their election enough. It simply said "Look how evil these people are, its baaaaad that you elected them" Well f&#king right they're bad. Listen, its not those that are blaring out hateful messages that ordinary people need to be worried about, because they're obvious, its those who talk meekly about allowing the executive branch more leeway, those who ask for national id's for everyone to prevent child kidnapping, those who have noble goals and wild eyed idealism about how humanity works that should be thwarted above all. Because they are the ones that set in place the laws that will be abused by the evil ones.

This is why I think the movie is unrealistic. Because its the most obvious worst case scenario laid out without the good intentions or supposed good intentions being explained how they were corrupted into this parody of government.

So that's why I have my opinion and I wager to say I'm not as naive as people have been accusing me of.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. – H.L. Mencken

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 5:55 PM

ZOID

JubelLate:

Dude. I'm not accusing you of naivete here, but they did explain how the totalitarian government rose to power. It was kinda subtle, because it was taking place in newsreel footage behind the main action, when the Rush Limbaugh clone was going off.

Didja see the little labels, one of which was titled 'Avian Flu'?

I'd say more, but I'm too close to spoiling already...

Respectfully,

zoid
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"I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDBOF'

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 6:12 PM

JUBELLATE

it was a collage of overlapping newsreels that taken together make things believable, but no direct logical progression IMO.

I'll admit though, the second two Matrix movies spoiled my opinion of the Wachowskis. I went into the movie looking for things they did wrong and that probably contributed to my harsh criticism.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. – H.L. Mencken

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Friday, August 12, 2022 12:42 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

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There are other parts of the world where that is most definitely the case. Ask Salman Rushdie...

or NY in USA?

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