V for Vendetta
Sunday, March 19, 2006 @ 4:00 am by -DS-If you ever want to know where the United States is heading you need to watch this movie. When the movie started I said “Great, another cliché movie of a hero and a damsel in distress…” because they throw you that scene in the first ten minutes of the movie but what happens after that should serve as warning of what’s about to come if we continue to bend over for Bush policies, like the so called “Patriot Act”.
There were so many “coincidences” between that movie and what’s happening in the USA right now that I was just astonished, but the thing that caught my attention even more was when the “Great Chancellor” said “we are going to make the people (the citizens of Great Britain) remember why they need us (the government)” and then afterwards the media starts a campaign of news that’s brings out, or shows the worst things that were happening in the world, like people dying of strange deceases, like the mad cow or the avian flu, wars on other countries, like the Civil War that was happening in the USA at that moment, or terror acts perpetrated on other countries. But the most important thing that resembles US reality is that the government staged a terror attack on their own country so they could gain maximum political power and create a police state to have full control over the citizens of the country, and the citizens agreed to that because they were on times of need and emergency.
Some people say that the new laws been created by congress are making the stage for a future Police State and that the catalyst for that were the “attacks” of 9/11, coincidence?
“There is no such thing as coincidence…”
That is definitely one of my best movies ever.
March 19th, 2006 at 5:55 am
watch this..
March 19th, 2006 at 10:26 am
I’ve yet to watch the movie. Ezequiel gave me a scanned copy of the entire graphic novel by Mr. Alan Moore sometime in the summer of ‘05, when I expressed interest in reading it before watching the movie. The quality of the scans are really good, and all you need is a small program for reading comics and graphic novels in that format. I strongly suggest you read it. If you want, I could send it to you.
Keep in mind, this graphic novel was started in 1982, so the parallelisms you may find with current-day US become all the more striking.
I hope to see the film soon.
March 19th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
From what I am reading from this post and from other people that saw the movie, it looks that the movie is good. I might see it today.
I am just very skeptic for conspiracy theories although the government might take advantage of the 9/11 attacks or any other situation in the world as an oportunity to advance further into the agendas. The invasion of Iraq was being considered before the attacks of 9/11 occurred for example.
Yesterday, I went to see Totsi in Fine Arts. The movie won an Oscar this year for best Foreign Picture. It ressenbles a little bit of the brazilian movie “City of God”.
March 19th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Hey–I want a copy of that scan!
March 19th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
I completely agree, there were just way to many similarities. When I left the movie theater I told my friend “great, now someone is going to blow up the White House”.
March 19th, 2006 at 3:31 pm
Manny: ‘V for Vendetta’ is anything but a conspiracy theory. It is a tale of how bad a totalitarian/police state can get, and how ‘terrorism’ is an easy label to place upon something for which ‘revolution’ is more apt. It speaks volumes of the power of the media. It was written between ‘82 and ‘83, so there’s no direct reference to the Bush administration or any conspiracy it’s been involved with.
The simple fact that people read the novel or watch the film now and see clear references to the Bush administration should serve as not only a warning, but a lesson. Said lesson being: We’ve been warned of this for decades with excellent and considerably high-profile works (books and films) such as Metropolis, Farenheit 451, 1984, and (most recently) Dark City, The Matrix and Equilibrium (okay, so Dark City and Equilibrium weren’t all that high-profile), yet the US seems to be invariably headed for precisely this kind of future. And that’s a scary thought, considering said country is *the* superpower.
Joseph: let me know how I can get it to you. You can write to me at serge[dot]lafont[at]gmail[dot]com.
March 19th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
Just saw the movie now and I recommend it too.
Lafont: When I was making the comment I was referring to the link that Iris left on her comment plus all the conspiracy theories that has surfaced since 9/11 in which most of them does not make any sense at all. THough then, I have to agree that the movie has disturbing similarities with the current situation of the some countries in the world, including the USA and Europe.
Anyways….I just want a copy of the scan too.
March 21st, 2006 at 9:42 am
En realidad no es ninguna coinciden [...]
cia. Los hermanos Wachowsky cambiaron el tema del comic original para que se pareciera a la situación historica actual. En realidad V es un psicopata anarquista viviendo en un país completamente opuesto, fascista. Su deseo no es cambiar el gobierno, ni ayudar a las masas, si no darle el poder a las masas y que ellas dominen. Lo que si debes pensar es que uno de los mas importantes mensajes de la pelicula es que lo que una persona considera un terrorista, para otra es un heroe. Este tema toca muy de cerca a Puerto Rico y probablemente a tus creencias politicas. Si deseas mas info al respecto, lee esta entrevista con Alan Moore, creador del comic original y quien pidio que sacaran su nombre de los créditos.
May 4th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
Read this from the famous Dr. Carl G. Jung Psychiatrist:
Open quote: The goal and meaning of individual life (which is only real life) no longer lie in the individual development but in the policy of the state, which is thrust upon the individual from the outside and consist in the execution of an abstract idea which ultimately tends to attract all life to itself. The individual is increasingly deprived of moral decision as to how should live his own life, and instead is ruled, fed,clothed and educated as a social unit, accomodated in the appropriate housing unit, and amused in accordance with the standards that give pleasure and satisfactionto the masses. The rulers, in their turn, are just as much social units as the ruled and are distinguished only by the fact that they are specialized mouthpieces of the sate doctrine. They do not need to be personalities capable of judment, but thoroughgoing specialists who are unusable outside their line of business. State policy decides what shall be taught and studied.
Thes seemingly omnipotent State dotrine is for its part manipulated in the name of the state by those occupying the highest positions in the goverment, whera all the power is concentrated. Whoever by election or caprice gets into these positions is no longer subservient to authority, for he is the state policy itself and within the limits of the situation can proceed at his own discretion. With Louis XIV he can say, “L’etat c est moi” “I am the state” He is thus the only individual or at any rate, one of the few individuals who could make use of their individuality if only they knew how to differentiate themselves from state doctrine. The are likely the slaves of their own fictions. Such onesideness is always compensated psychologically by unconscious subversive tendencies. Slavery and rebellion are inseparable correlates. Hence, rivalry for for power and exaggerated distrust pervade the entire organism from top to bottom. Furthermore, in order to compensate for its chaotic formless, a mass always produce a “LEADER”, who almost infallibly becomes the victim of own inflated ego-consciousness, as numerous examples in history. Close quote.
Any similarities to Puerto Rico or any country in 21rst century is not pure coincidence. This is human nature the undiscovery self, a paradox or the fiction becoming the reality.