V

my personal feelings on V for Vendetta, that movie that most of you won't go watch....but should consider it.

This movie comes for real. As in...it brings it. And by it, I mean political agenda and an idea. But you know what...it's not anti-republican party. It's anti-government in general.
Maybe I see what I want....and maybe that's some of the beauty in great art (and some of the ugly in bad art), it can be interpretted in a variety of ways....
In the film, set in the somewhat near future of Britain, the Government has grown out of control....using its power to control the media and its people (oh wait, don't they already? just kidding, kinda) through Fear. People in the media, the right wing media, supposedly have been taking mild stabs at the movie for being anti-US government....I guess, so everyone was ready to go out and give the movie shit....but I think two things happened.
One being, it's actually a movie that doesn't inhereintly disrespect any real American values (the real ones, not the newer fake ones), but supports them....atleast the ones I like the most.
Two, it's good....but it's a little heavy for the average movie goer in my opinion.....but maybe im underestimating people....so despite being number one its first week, I imagine its gonna slip quickly....and therefore not cause that much of a splash anyways.

So is this movie that important......sorta.
Why?
I went and saw this movie with both my mother and father. I'll try not to get into too many details, but if you ask them, both my parents will claim to be strong republicans. They support Bush fully, they support the war for the most part....
But, if you start really talking to them, they never sound like Republicans to me.....or atleast they don't sound like what republicans do in the media.
They claim that Bush is good, but will in private admit that he is making some mistakes.
They claim to be conservative, but don't understand why we are still driving a car fueled with gasoline, and still don't understand why we don't have a flat tax rate.
The claim to support less government, and despise the thought of giving up liberties to the government....
My parents are christian, but support abortion....
My parents can't stand the cops, nor their neighbors that usually call them on them.
My parents listen to Houston rap music, and and support non-censorship in the right areas....
They, to me, are no longer conservatives....because that definition is changing. To me their ideas sometimes seem radical. Its like they want change....they want to feel free-er. Whatever that means....i guess it's different for everyone.

The terms liberal and conservative seem muddled to me....
conservative would seem to mean supporting everything in all those 200 plus year old documents....all that shit....that barely means anything now....liberty, freedom, equality...yadda yadda...
Government as a hand of the people in the country....that's what i want....that seems radical to me now......im rambling more than i intended....


The point is....after this movie with them/parents.....they walked out, and after my Dad (and Me (for one sentence)) talked my Mom out of thinking this one section of the movie with an incarcerated Lesbian (put in prison because she was gay) was in fact, not Hollywood propaganda....they both kinda saw the same things I did.
The Big one being, that eventually...a Government can get out of hand....and eventually they may need to get taken down, and a new one established....

I think this reminder to people is the only reason why this movie is important. It's something I've always thought of....but never felt necessary (not that I'm strong or charismatic enough to start something but..meh).....maybe you do think so already....but you probably hate George Bush for a handful of reasons, and think irrationally...just kidding...kind of.

I personally don't think the current American government is far too out of control....I just think it's not quick enough, and is too concerned with not looking bad......
there are too many ways of looking at it, and too many ways to convince people of any way of looking at it.
We will see in 2008 i suppose....if we get another president, republican or democrat, who wins by a tiny margin, and who doesn't seem to want to get us where we need to be fast enough....and seems to be carrying, with his term, all this fear....and all this misinformation.......then we will see how pissed everyone gets.......then we will see if we will get any V's. I'd love to be a part of it......
More interesting will be to see the thing that gets our very split country to align under a common goal........what's that quote about exciting times?


And honestly...i want my hybrid by next year, and i want it for 19000....at the most.




do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.....until you violate the rights of another. yeah? no? yeah......