I recommend that you, all of your family over the age of twelve to fourteen
,
depending on their sensitivity, your friends, neighbors and
everyone over whom you have influence, see this movie as soon as
you can.
There is a lot of violence in V For Vendetta, just as there was a lot of
violence
in The Patriot. An honest portrayal of revolutions is of necessity like
that. When people neglect their responsibility
to preserve their freedom and tyranny results, there is no moral or
rational choice except
to deal with it directly. Remember that rebellion against tyranny is
obedience to
God. Most of the violence in this excellent movie is obviously "good"
violence in the
sense that justice is being meted out to villains who need and deserve it
and that
there is no alternative since the villains have destroyed the law (or tried
to do so,
with temporary success until thwarted by the hero).
I believe that you will consider some of the violence which is
apparently not justified in a different perspective by the end of the
film. However, I am being
intentionally vague in order not to ruin the story for you.
My only major objection to this great film is that it was not set in the
United States.
The resistance to tyranny by the tragic hero, V, and his colleagues is
definitely L/libertarian,
not to mention the very creative and innovative methods which he uses
against the tyrant, Sutler (sp)?
and his henchmen and henchwomen. Among its many L/libertarian aspects is
the magnificent
slogan, "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments
should be afraid of
their people." This should be our slogan and our goal and we should
redouble our efforts while
we still have Constitutional, legal means to do so.
For life and liberty,
David Macko
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 9:58
AM
Subject: Re: [libertarian-outreach]
Libertarian movie?
David:
I MIGHT see it. But I seldom pay more than a dollar to rent a
movie. So it may be a while.
I can't take too much violence anymore. I RESENTED even being
subjected to the violence in California, Reservoir Dogs and Heavenly
Creatures, to name just a few.
Even leftists and conservatives are against the WORST forms of
government abuse you seem to describe in V. Leftists defend
and accept THEIR bureaucrats/apparatchiks, rightists theirs (particularly the
police/gestapo). I don't see how it would move them away from
their already statist-coercionist views and attitudes. I
suppose it may just re-enforce them. Won't they just integrate into
their present ideology and mindset. What in this movie is
DEFINITIVELY libertarian?
Well, I guess I'd have to see it myself to answer that
question.
James
David Macko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I strongly recommend it to everyone over fourteen. If you have children
under
fourteen, you might want to see it first. Fortunately, it is so good
that I may see
it twice. About the only substantial criticism I have is that it was
not set in
the United States.
For life and liberty,
David Macko
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:32
AM
Subject: Re: [libertarian-outreach]
Libertarian movie?
Joe:
No, I haven't seen V is for Vendetta, but maybe I'll check it out
when it goes down to a dollar. (I'm cheap/frugal).
Well, here's my usual negative contrarianism, but why would this
movie "stir the masses" in a libertarian direction any more or better than
Nineteen-Eighty Four, THX-1138, Shadow on the Land (TV ca. 1970), or any
other of the dozens of dystopia movies made since film began?
There are all sorts of movies that can and do "stir the masses" in an
very UNlibertarian direction, going back to Metropolis, The Grapes of
Wrath, Gung Ho, etc., etc. It's easier to stir the masses in
unlibertarian directions because it appeals to the worst in
people----mainly envy, vindictiveness and fear. For every
libertarian movie, there are a dozen evilly-well crafted statist ones that
counteracts it.
I think our PRESENT situation is a very subtly camouflaged
"totalitarianism". It's suffocates and ever so slowly starves and
strangles the spirit in a morass of smarm and banality. It would be
very, very hard to convey the sort of oppression we have in this country
and throughout the world today. Ours is a "very caring"
totalitarianism. Maybe some literary or cinematic genious will be
able to achieve this some day.
I guess you've heard of "Miss Liberty" the review column associated
with The Advocates for Self-Government. They review a lot of movies
with supposedly libertarian messages, or probably just libertarian
"strains" in them.
Well, maybe VIFV will at least be entertaining. I might check
it out after it goes down in price a bit.
James
Somebody else (other than DM) wrote:
I
was curious as to how many of you may have seen the new movie, V
is
For Vendetta? Whereas one could argue that it isn't
Libertarian, it
is about the abusive practices of a totalitarian
government and one
man's quest to get even and wake up his fellow
coutrymen. Even
better, it is based in part on some true
history - Guy Fawkes -
Remember, Remember the 5th of November! I
think in the future it may
be up to this sort of media outreach to
stir the mASSES. I'd like to
hear some of your thoughts on the
subject.
