Libertarian themed movie
V for Vendetta’s movie tagline is:
People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Based on that, I’ll go see it.
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February 21st, 2006 at 11:20 am
V is for Vendetta
February 21st, 2006 at 12:48 pm
That’s the reason I’m going to see it as well.
February 21st, 2006 at 2:54 pm
You should read the Alan Moore graphic novel. It is very powerful. I assume the Wachowski brothers (Matrix guys) will do an awsome job with it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_vendetta
February 21st, 2006 at 3:14 pm
The early info makes it look like another “bash the evil Right-Wing oppressors!” film. I thought the original graphic novel was supposed to be against an oppressive left-wing government.
Still, the sentiment holds.
I’m going to reserve judgement on the movie until after it comes out, but I’m not expecting much.
February 21st, 2006 at 4:24 pm
the moive is based in the future when britin is run by a facist goverment. If the move has some cool guns it would be nice.
secondly, the V painted on the wall in a circle looks a lot like the anarchy symbol.
February 21st, 2006 at 10:03 pm
The original graphic novel was about an evil oppressive Right-Wing government, written during Thatcher’s rule. The author said in the foreword to the version I read that if he’d written it today (‘today’ being many years ago but post-Thatcher), it would have been about an evil oppressive Left-Wing government, and made an emphatic point about how either kind of totalitarianism was equally bad. I felt that sentiment came through in the novel.
I fear that this will be cut out of the movie version. I’m planning to wait to see it until I hear from others.
February 22nd, 2006 at 3:06 am
I plan to see it, but I’m not sure it’s a libertarian movie. From what I understand, V’s idea of fighting the government is similar to Timothy McVeigh’s and Osama bin Laden’s.