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smokingboot) wrote2006-03-19 11:21 am
smokingboot) wrote2006-03-19 11:21 am
V for Very Pertinent
Saw V for Vendetta last night; read the comic years ago.
Tell a story a different way and it becomes a different story, because the tale's not in what happens but in the telling...and in the time of the telling. Purists who go to see panels of the original made mobile on screen will be disappointed, but I wasn't. It's different but yes, it works. A little self conscious in places, and you don't feel the grubby cruelty of Fate's Britain, but still, harsh enough. I would watch it again.
It's a good time for a film like this to be out, especially for Brits, cos some say we have a tendency to believe nothing will ever go wrong, it couldn't happen round here. The laws will always be reasonable and our rights will never be infringed, not really; The Lords, the Queen, the England Football Manager, The BBC, God, God's mate with a sense of humour, someone somewhere will always sort it out. Commonsense will always win in the end.
But of course, rights do not spring out of a sense of natural justice. The only rights we really have are those we are prepared to defend.
What follows is on so many people's ljs, I apologise to anyone reading this who is sick of the subject, but some things bear repeating.
The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill has recently passed its second reading and is now in Committee.
The implications are far reaching and potentially very dangerous. Here is the bill. Be warned, it is tedious reading, but very important. Black and white with many loud noises = interesting; the fights we lose are the grey quiet ones.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/111/06111.1-4.html
Should you wish to act upon what you read, here is a link by which you can contact your mp: http://www.writetothem.com/
I am indebted tobinidj for pointing at this issue, and linking to an lj which analyses it in depth: http://oldmotherchaos.livejournal.com/65547.html.
Tell a story a different way and it becomes a different story, because the tale's not in what happens but in the telling...and in the time of the telling. Purists who go to see panels of the original made mobile on screen will be disappointed, but I wasn't. It's different but yes, it works. A little self conscious in places, and you don't feel the grubby cruelty of Fate's Britain, but still, harsh enough. I would watch it again.
It's a good time for a film like this to be out, especially for Brits, cos some say we have a tendency to believe nothing will ever go wrong, it couldn't happen round here. The laws will always be reasonable and our rights will never be infringed, not really; The Lords, the Queen, the England Football Manager, The BBC, God, God's mate with a sense of humour, someone somewhere will always sort it out. Commonsense will always win in the end.
But of course, rights do not spring out of a sense of natural justice. The only rights we really have are those we are prepared to defend.
What follows is on so many people's ljs, I apologise to anyone reading this who is sick of the subject, but some things bear repeating.
The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill has recently passed its second reading and is now in Committee.
The implications are far reaching and potentially very dangerous. Here is the bill. Be warned, it is tedious reading, but very important. Black and white with many loud noises = interesting; the fights we lose are the grey quiet ones.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/111/06111.1-4.html
Should you wish to act upon what you read, here is a link by which you can contact your mp: http://www.writetothem.com/
I am indebted to
binidj for pointing at this issue, and linking to an lj which analyses it in depth: http://oldmotherchaos.livejournal.com/65547.html.
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I enjoyed V immensely, but suspect it will never be the most popular film to come out of Hollywood!