People shouldn't fear their governments...

[gridlore]

...governments should fear their people.

V for Vendetta simply rocked. Yes, many differences from the comic (not all ones I agreed with) but the writing was tight, the film was beautiful, and Natalie Portman may have just grabbed a Best Actress nomination. And Hugo Weaving.. ye Ghods! He spends the entire movie hidden behind masks, yet turns in a performance that is nuanced and powerful. V is cunning, murderous, and driven, yet capable of tenderness and honor. V is mad, but he lives in a world gone mad. But it's not just V, everything in this film is just good, down to the Benny Hill tribute at one point.

See this film.

After the film, I mention to Kirsten that it might be amusing to start a meme. Print out the red "V in a circle" with the quote I used to open this post, and mail it to the White House. Imagine a few hundred thousand of those little messages landing at 1600 Pennsylvania...

Comments

[jarlsberg71.livejournal.com]

sadly he might think it's a V for Victory...

[kshandra]

I suggested this image instead. Cropped, perhaps, so the movie info isn't on there - but either way.

[10binary-cats.livejournal.com]

It'd probably be better if governments didn't fear their people. Fear leads to hate, hate leads to anger, anger leads to... well you know the rest.

Besides...isn't your government *of* the people, *by* the people, *for* the people? Even if your daddy has to buy the presidency for you? (is Jeb Bush running in 2 years? )

When's your next revolution?