Movie time
Saw V is for Vendetta last night. Jana didn't like it as much as I did. For some reason the thought of revolution, and a purpose greater than my own, always gets me a little excited. Maybe it was just all the exploding buildings. It reminded me of Fight Club, but with a lot more philosophyzing (not sure that's a word) and stranger costumes. Anyway, lots of talking. Natalie Portman looked beautiful as always, even with the lack of hair. (I sort of have a crush, Jana already knows.)
The war room scenes were also remniscent of Dr. Strangelove. Lots of things to talk about. Hopefully someone with more literary depth than myself can expound on the film.
Favorite line: "a revolution without dancing is not a revoultion worth having."
Being the revolutionaries that we are, Jana and I snuck our own food and drinks into the show. Who said the man was keeping us down?
The war room scenes were also remniscent of Dr. Strangelove. Lots of things to talk about. Hopefully someone with more literary depth than myself can expound on the film.
Favorite line: "a revolution without dancing is not a revoultion worth having."
Being the revolutionaries that we are, Jana and I snuck our own food and drinks into the show. Who said the man was keeping us down?
posted by rob at 6:09 PM
4 Comments:
Haven't seen it yet, though I intend to. I read the comic a long time ago.
Based on what I've read/heard, the revolutionary message of the book is actually quite diluted in the movie (and Alan Moore, the guy that wrote it, actually had his name taken off as a result). The conflict in the movie is between sort of a far-right, social conservative war party (sound familiar?) dictatorship and V, who has been recast as sort of a leftist Che Guevara in a mask type.
In the book V is an unflinching anarchist, (a real one, not a RATM/Noam Chomsky-type who thinks that anarchy somehow entails social welfare programs and universal health care) and the state is overtly fascist. So the conflict there isn't a left/right what kind of governement do we want, but state vs. anti-state.
But still...I'll go see it on account of it looks cool and Natalie Portman is hot.
Sigh.
Brian you ignorant slut.
Don't you know that the state is a tool of the industrialists brought about to protect their "private" property.
In the absence of these so-called rights, people revert to their true sydicalist nature and the community of man is restored.
Maybe you should trying reading.
No way, dude. Reading sucks ass.
Fascinating. For me, one of the most profound moments in Vendetta is when V says, "If truth be told... if you are looking for the guilty, you need only look in the mirror." Yes, the ruling class -- a small minority -- uses the State as a tool of control, and for perpetuating their own dominion, but the State is only as powerful as the subjects allow it to be. Imagine a world where only 1% of the population were like V. It would be a radically different world -- either totally fraught with conflict, or under total, real democratic control.
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