V for Violent

I have given up on watching the Pallisers. Not because it is boring or because the quality of the film, but because every time I start to watch it, Lance wants to settle down and get a brief synopsis of what has happened thus far.

I now know how Kate felt when I would sit in on her watching Buffy. My sincere apologies Kate.

A friend from the Harry Potter Meetup in Seattle lent me several films to enjoy. One of them was V for Vendetta. I really enjoy Natalie Portman - she is not only gorgeous, but also talented. She was also quite kind on Project Runway. She had one positive thing to say to each designer. Brooke Sheilds wasn't even that nice!

So, I had been looking forward to viewing V and sat down one night to watch it.

Overall, I really enjoyed it. It contains some very strong political messages that I do agree with.

There is a strong sense of rebellion in the film that I identify with.

On the whole, I am a pessimistic idealist. I remember discussing this with the hubbster once - that I want the world to act justly and fairly to all humans and creatures, but that I want policies put in place to ensure that those ideals are carried out. In my idealism, I also have a pessimism because I know that people do act justly.

Does that make sense? Well, the hubbster said that my pessimism about the world springs from an INCREDIBLY IDEALISTIC sense of how the world should work.

V for Vendetta brought to the surface of my mind all of the things that I would hate to see the world become. I am a Christian - I believe that Christ demonstrated the ultimate example of how humans should be have. But in V for Vendetta, Christianity is promoted as something totalitarian in nature. And I was very bothered that the symbol of the totalitarian government looked very much like the three bar Cross (minus the bottom bar). I was disturbed at the interpretation of what a Christian government's policies would be.

In its defense, the totalitarian government was supposed to be extreme, but why extreme Christianity? Why not extreme Buddhism? Or extreme Hinduism? Isn't the cast system of the Hindu religion also an extreme? I suppose Christianity is easy to take "shots" at because of the way SOME Christians have acted in the past.

I would hate for the world to become a place where one could not express oneself. It would be awful to hide away one's ideas.

But where does freedom begin and end? If I put parameters around what others can do, I also limit myself as well.

Hmmm...despite the anti-Christian sentiment I viewed in the film, I still enjoyed it because it made me think.

I will send this warning - the film was created by the same crew that did the Matrix trilogy, so it is VERY violent. I would crochet or do something else whenever someone was getting washed by a pressure hose, arrested in a most vicious manner, or becoming Swiss cheese via a volley of bullets.

But overall - it is worth watching.