V for Vendetta

[gwenhyver42]

I *have* watched V for Vendetta...
If I ever have the mind to write such a scenario, I will... I might have to be mean and at least wound the swordsman, though. Otherwise, it really won't be believable.

[mojoboy31]

[gwenhyver42]

[mojoboy31]

[gwenhyver42]

[Eskarina]

Having seen the movie more than half a dozen times I gotta ask....


Where was that part?

[mojoboy31]

[gwenhyver42]

[Eskarina]

Nope, we're talking about the same thing.

The movie is anti-theocracy. Theocracy is bad. For the most part they are men, twisting religous texts to control the masses. The texts and religons themselves are usually either fine, or nuetral but in the hands of evil and corrupt men they become weapons to control people.

In V for Vendetta the government controls what art is and isn't allowed to be made. They control who is allowed to have sex with whom. They control what books are allowed to be read, and what artwork is allowed to be seen. They use these to then exert more insidious control and create "others". The elderly gay man Evey is friends with becomes an other, someone to make the people fall in behind a totalitarian government. The government promises that by ridding themselves of others they will be protected from harm. In actuality, the government is perpetrating the very crimes they are saying they can prevent. It's not about religion as a concept. It's about religion as a means to control.

I have no idea how to address the idea of it being propaganda against America. The movie takes place in Britain and America is briefly mentioned once when the dictator is trying to warn his people to avoid the same fate.

The hero murders a totalitarian dictator (who has ordered the murder of thousands for petty, stupid reasons), the dictators mouthpiece, a hypocritical priest who rapes young girls, and a female doctor who experimented on live humans in the name of science. They were not Christians in the sense that you are a Christian. They used Christianity to justify atrocities. All of them were involved together on a medical project that "created" V as we know him. Every other prisoner they experimented on died. It was basically a concentration camp.

I believe it may even be alluded to that V is may, himself, is religious.

I'm not sure how you got, what you got out of the movie, but I hope that helps to allay your concern.

[mojoboy31]

[Eskarina]

Did you ever watch the movie yourself to draw your own conclusions?

Or read anything else I said...?

This really isn't the right place for this, but it seems disingenuous to claim to understand a movie you haven't seen. Moreover, the point of art is to draw your own conclusions, not to filter it through someone else's. Even if that someone made it, it's still open to an individualistic interpretation.

[mojoboy31]