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airehead
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 Posted: 03/25/06 - 22:42 Post subject: V for Vendetta
Excellent movie.
Proof of what happens when good men do nothing. And how change begins with one person.
Violent themes, nudity of corpses (reminiscent of Nazi Germany), but no gratuitous sex (only one attempted rape at the beginning that doesn't get very far).
The story was well done and the ideas were very well captured and brought to life.
I highly recommend this movie.
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dg12
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Posted: 05/02/06 - 12:55 Post subject:
The movie is portraying Margarets Thatcher's admin as Nazis. He's supposed to be a good guy who terrorizes and blows up buildings.
He threatens to kill thousands in society, exclaiming, "I have seen the terrorist, and he is me. And you. And all of us.
The movie calls evil good and good evil. A terrorist is a mass murderer of non combatant citizens, plain and simple.
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Posted: 05/02/06 - 13:03 Post subject:
| dg12 wrote: | The movie is portraying Margarets Thatcher's admin as Nazis. He's supposed to be a good guy who terrorizes and blows up buildings.
He threatens to kill thousands in society, exclaiming, "I have seen the terrorist, and he is me. And you. And all of us.
The movie calls evil good and good evil. A terrorist is a mass murderer of non combatant citizens, plain and simple. |
Say the government is a repressive regime. That the gov't is a Big Brother type government. Even taking the Nazi part out, if your government is acting like a terrorist regime...then what? If you strike back are you evil? If you try to change your country, are you evil?
Is the American Revolution evil? Well...depends what side of the pond you lived on. Granted, that was open warfare with armies, but it is a peope rising up against their government.
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airehead
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Posted: 05/02/06 - 16:41 Post subject:
The movie actually didn't portray Margaret Thatcher at all. That was pre-movie hype.
It was a fictional government patterned more on the atrocities of Nazi Germany. (Even a lovely view of a body pit and human experimentation)
It was more about perspective. Is it wrong to stand up agains evil? Or is that considered terrorism?
I'm sure a lot of Germans turned a blind eye to what was happening around them--and when they saw the true evil, it was too late to change.
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