V for Vendetta Review

how about V for Vomitous instead???

this doesn’t have much to do with Detroit, but i’ve been thinking about this, so i figured i’d post it here… i suppose indirectly it does, because in my opinion, it promotes divisiveness, and that is a big problem here in the D…

i saw “V for Vendetta” over the past weekend… cinematically, it was very well done… i liked the mask, the acting was good, great cinematography… however, the content was just gross, as in: disgusting… it was basically a slam on Christianity and Conservatives… i don’t have a problem if you don’t agree with either, but there’s no reason to hate on anyone… i was particularly offended by the freedoms taken by the film to slander people like our president (that he’s a tyrant), Conservative talk show hosts (that they all do drugs), and priests (that they’re all pedophiles)… conversely, there was no finger pointing at anything Liberal, and if anything seemed to me to glorify all things that Liberals seem to promote (especially homosexuality)… not only that, but it also seemed to glorify terrorism to some degree… first off, the main character V imprisons Natalie Portman’s character against her will and somehow that’s portrayed as a good thing… she’s even thankful for it… then in the end of the movie, they blow up the biggest governmental building in town by ramming a train full of explosives into it… HUH!?!!? what baffled me most is that people applauded at the end of the movie… even my movie partner said he thought it was a great movie… to each his own, i suppose… but how can their be anything great about a movie that slanders people, encourages holding people against their will because you think it’s better for them and in addition to that blowing up a government’s building???

i’d like to touch on this though… the movie has a character who gets executed for having a Koran… the implication made by the movie is that Christians/Conservatives hate Islam and want to extract it from society… granted, some Christians/Conservatives greatly disagree with Islam but hardly any of them want to have someone killed for not agreeing with them (only the mentally unstable ones do)… however, on the news you can read about a fellow in Afghanistan who has been threatened with execution because he converted to Christianity…

as with several of it’s themes, apparently “V for Vendetta” got this one backwards… contrary to the movie’s implications, we haven’t heard about any Muslims in America getting threatened with execution simply because they aren’t Christian… on the other hand, it’s already law in Afghanistan…

“V for Vomitous” is a better title if you ask me…