Tuesday, March 21, 2006
V for Vile
The new popular movie V for Vendetta hasn't reached my area of Japan yet (e.g. I haven't seen the movie yet). I've seen trailers for it and was looking forward to a well filmed depiction of a dystopia on the order of Brazil or THX 1138.
One appraisal I've read thus far has me wondering if I want the con-artists of Hollywood to take more of my money in exchange for their usual storyline regarding the nature of authoritarian government.
It appears that Hollywood's latest depiction of a future world of political horror is not one where Islamo-fascists have triumphed, or repeat performances of state coercion from the nationalist (fascist) and internationalist (communist) socialist schemes of the last century (that killed over 100 million people in mass slaughters, famines, and imposed slave-labor conditions). No, the real threat out there is Christianity and imagined anti-Islamic "oppression" -- in essence, left-wing caricatures of what they think of common people who oppose terrorism, and centralized imposed communalism. Remember, if you want lower taxes, less regulation, and respect for individual autonomy, you just might be a fascist -- or a pedophile priest like the one depicted in V for Vendetta.
The sorry state of the whole matter is that many young people, and a few old ones who have learned nothing from history or life, will buy this nonsense.
The grandest absurdity of the whole matter regarding this breed of Hollywood propaganda is that most of the people who produce, direct, act, and write such phony B.S. are themselves wealthy beyond belief -- prime beneficiaries of an open society who continually degrade and insult the nature of free society while screaming that they are somehow being "silenced."
As the article in my opening link describes, these worthless, clueless, fools continually demonstrate their lack of concern over any horror or tyranny committed in communism's name, and now Islamo-fascism has become another sacred okay method of mass oppression. But, watch out for those folks from the religious right. Priests and people opposed to terror they're the real danger out there. We know this...because if Hollywood says it, it must be true.
