The Importance of Being Idle

V for Vendetta

I've just seen the trailer for the V for Vendetta movie, and I have to say that it looks pretty good (at least from what you can tell in a couple of minutes) although the proud boast of it being "from the creators of the Matrix Trilogy" was cause for a laugh - I'll have to ask Alan Moore what he thinks of that next time I bump into him... V is one of those stories that really does need to be told and told well right now, in a time when our national governments are using fear and the fear of terrorism as excuses to crack down on quaint notions like freedom of expression. As V himself says "People shouldn't fear their governments, governments should fear their people". At some point we apparently lost the plot politically, and now exist to serve the whims of our leaders, rather than our leaders serving us. I'm not saying that we shouldn't fight against terrorism, but you do not do that through ever more draconian laws restricting expression, thought, movement, the right to protest and so on... All those laws do is make me want to overthrow the government myself!
One more piece of V's wisdom that our law makers would do well to heed: "Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bullet proof."

posted by BadMonkey @ 11:52 AM