V for Vendetta

I just saw this flick. And yes, it is that good.
Well... at least if you haven't see Equillibrium, Ultra Violet, Fahrenheit 485 or any other likeminded film, because you see, the idea is as old as the ages and it has been incorporated into as many films, books, poems and websites as the idea of sex.
You take an existing world, change it into something we, the western world, fear. A dictatorship. A dictatorship that has been ercted by people using the means of fear. Manipulating the peoples under the guise of safety and protection. But all is well that ends well and in all these flicks someone stands up kills the dictator, his cronies and the idea they stand for. As simple as that.

But that's not all I wanted to say about this. I've read Fahrenheit 485 and I've seen Equillibrium, Ultra Violet and many a film alike. In all things the "protection" and "fear" starts at terrorism, war, desease. The two stories that appealed to me the most were F485 and V. Why? Because they did not encompass the entire world as it did in Eq and UV (or, maybe for better understanding, Aeon Flux). In F485 it was the US that gave up it's picture of democracy and "disposed" of conflicting ideas. In V it was the UK. Though in the book F485 the prelude was never given, nor in the film. But in V they did explain how everything came to pass.
Now, you would say that it would be impossible for such modern democracies to fall so low and return as dictatorships. I thought so myself. So a major disaster must strike first to accomplish such a feat. In Aeon Flux it is desease and over population, in UV it's zealotry and extremism that schism the world and so it is in Eq and F485. Yet in all these stories it is a group of people who see opportunity in dire circumstances. Indeed the idea was as dark as the opportunity itself. And here is the major difference between V and the others. In V the disaster that gives rise to the opportunity was not an eventuality like overpopulation or desease. It was a fabricated pathogen that raged across a nation. The fabricators planned their attack precisely without flaw and they came in control of one of todays *cough* more powerfull nations *cough*.

Also it seemed at first glance, but I am not entirely right. The prime disaster was not fabricated by those who wanted to dominate. It was fabricated by those who thought they could liberate. In V the US overreacted with their little war on terrorism, which ended up dividing the nation and civil war erupted. AND THIS was the prime disaster. Because this launched an era of chaos and made it so that nations could no longer affect eachother properly. For would that have been the situation, the fabricators would not have been able to take control. They would not have been given the opportunity.

And you all say, that will never happen to us. Yet, do YOU know if and how much sensorship is being pressed through the media? Sure the internet is a means of free press, but it's also a place where there is never an impartial party, every oppinion, every sentence, every word carries the load of the writer. Which makes it just as bad as a sensored newsreport. You don't know for sure how exact or true the things said are. you don't who for sure who handles by which motives.

And THAT is the power of the media, for I might say these things here, today. Yet, you will all watch the news tomorrow or read the newspaper and see the pictures and the video footage of places like Beiroet, Israël and Sri Lanka. And you will all think that everything you see is true.
But we do not know. Hezbollah says there are x amount of dead civillians, Israël will count y amount, and the "free" press will come to the conclusion that z people died.
What do we know? NOTHING, at least not enough to pass judgement on one party wihtout adressing the other.
Sure Hezbollah is wrong, everything they stand for is a mischief and deceit, death and fear. All qualities of chaos. Yet, Israël is no better. They could have gone through with this peacefully. They could have asked for international support. As it is now, Israël gave Hezbollah a reason to launch, and both parties are guilty, BUT Israël should have been a mature boy and called for the other kids to help and talk it over. All they did is make the world more afraid of itself. All they did is show that they are more eager to fight and "get even" than to resolve things with words, not lives. They have shown that they are no better than those whom they supposedly hunt, I'm not even gonna write israël with a capital letter aymore, it is not the name of a nation, it is the name of a terrorist organisation.
POINT, ya hear? BIG FAT POINT

-E

PS: please don't forget about the other conflicts in the world, yesterday more people died in Sri Lanka as a direct result of the on going civil war than there were people killed in the entire conflict of the last few weeks between hezbollah and israël. And Sri Lanka is not the only place. Consider that.

Im off to bed.