V is for Vendetta: A view of things to come?

This has to be one of the most well made, most provocative films I have ever seen. I haven't been left in awe over a movie's impact since American History X. It is a spectacular triumph of story telling. The casting, acting and dialog were all excellent. The quality I found most appealing, was the mirror it held up to american society, the not so subtle way it reflected what could be, a vision of the future. Several newpaper and magazine articles were written in uproarus disapproval of this contraverical film.

After reading several of these articles from different sources, I found an underlying theme that is really interesting,... And disturbing. The same fascist rhetoric and propaganda used to control the characters in the movie, is being deployed in real life. A case of art imitating life, imitating art. The voices condemning this film are from the right wing religous and conservitive political partites. In the movie, the government and the church were the make up of the body that controls the police state. In real life it is the government and the church claiming this to be a vile attack on them. I have added the article below and placed in italic some of the words and phrases that stood out to me while reading it. Phrases like "God hates it" and " We should all fear". Why does the authour insist that I should be afraid. Slogans like these always stand out to me as means of control over people using fear as a tool.


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Time Warner promotes terrorism and anti-Christian bigotry in new leftist movie, 'V for Vendetta'Posted: March 17, 20061:00 a.m. EasternEditor's note: Dr. Tom Snyder contributed to this commentary. It has only been two weeks since the Oscar ceremony celebrated left-wing politics and anti-Christian bigotry with such movies as "Brokeback Mountain" and "Syriana." Today, Time Warner is continuing that policy by releasing "V for Vendetta" – a vile, pro-terrorist piece of neo-Marxist, left-wing propaganda filled with radical sexual politics and nasty attacks on religion and Christianity.

The ending of "V for Vendetta" celebrates terrorism when the movie's three most sympathetic characters carry out an evil plan to blow up England's Parliament building, one of Western Civilization's most enduring symbols of democracy and republican government with a small "r."

The rest of "V for Vendetta" not only depicts Christians as evil people who oppress and torture "innocent" people, it also depicts homosexuals as a persecuted, harmless minority of "nice" people. Both of these portrayals are hate-filled, false stereotypes, but the second one is actually contradicted by the secret stash of homoerotic pornography that one of the homosexual characters in the movie hides in a secret room in his house. If all homosexuals, and all homosexual activists, are such goody two shoes, how come so many of them resort to unsafe sexual practices that spread deadly diseases, and how come so many of them promote pornography, support the murder of unborn children through abortion and molest underage children?

Where does all this abhorrent, pro-terrorist, atheist, pseudo-intellectual left-wing politics in "V for Vendetta" originate? It stems from the communist influence of the Frankfurt School. The Frankfurt School was started in Germany in 1923 by a group of Marxist intellectuals, and modeled after the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in the Soviet Union. When Hitler came to power in 1933, these Marxists fled to the United States to teach at famous colleges like Columbia University, Princeton and the University of California at Berkeley. Eventually, they became founders and powerful leaders of the counter-culture revolution in the 1960s. This revolution started the movement for "political correctness" in America. Paul Haggis, the writer/director/producer who picked up two Oscars for "Crash"– exposed this neo-Marxist, PC agenda on international television during the Oscar ceremony. Haggis quoted the Marxist playwright, Bertolt Brecht, saying, "Art is not a mirror held up to society, it is a hammer by which to shape it."

Of course, the Christian view of art, and the view of art in both the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament documents of the Bible, is that art should celebrate and promote the Good, the True and the Beautiful. The Good, the True and the Beautiful do not promote such evils as blowing up civilian buildings, immoral sexual practices conducted outside the bounds of heterosexual marriage, political terrorism and atheist, pro-homosexual bigotry that creates vile, hateful stereotypes of Christians and their leaders.

The Christian view of art sees God as the ultimate ruler of all creation and all communication and also sees Jesus Christ as the ultimate standard of all artistic excellence.Armed with this basic theology of art, we can fight the evil influence of such movies as "V for Vendetta." Knowledge of theology can lead to understanding, but the fear of God is the beginning of all wisdom. In other words, God hates it when institutions and people like Time Warner and the filmmakers behind "V for Vendetta" pervert mankind's ability to create art. When we behave so sinfully, we should all fear His righteous judgment.

To quote President Teddy Roosevelt, however, "If you educate a man's mind but not his heart, you end up with an educated barbarian."Thus, our theology and philosophy of art must be informed by frequent reading and serious study of the Bible, which is the Word of God. Only God's Word can educate the heart to follow the Good, the True and the Beautiful that comes through faith in Jesus Christ, who redeems us from our sins and energizes our faith through His true and perfect love.


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After removing the "Propagandga" from this article. It has told us that this film is opposed to all that is "The good, The true, and The beautiful", according to their point of view. That only seditious revolusionists and homosexuals bent destroying their way of life, will watch and enjoy this film. It tells us the homosexuals are responsible for the spread of disease and the molstation children. That they are to blame for abortion. Where do they come off with the idea that homosexuals are to blame for these atrocites. I find this to be the most insulting, degrading, vile thing ever said about a social group. I guess they can't keep blaming black people for everything that is wrong in the world, they won't tolerate it anyone. So they found a new scapegoat.


If certain religous and political groups think the film is so dangerous, maby they should be asking why the creators find the issues in the film important enough to bring to the big screen. If they think that this is an attack on christianity, they should refreash their history and remember the true percusion which christians have faced. No christians were harmed during the making of this film. This was not an attack on faith in christianity or loyalty to judicious goverment. It was an attack on the abuse of that faith, that loyalty.

It is a movie about ideas. To label it an " Terrorist recruitment film," is of course infinitely idiotic, ignoring the allegory and pretending that the movie is propaganda. Like all great dystopian works, V for Vendetta is a call for awareness and collective introspection. The world it depicts is far removed from our own in some ways and very close in others. The message it brings to light is simply, pay attention.

We should always question the authority. People have the right to descide truth for themsevles without censorship. Any body of power ,reglious or govermental that suppress's infomation, citeing it " seditious" or "unpatriotic" should be examined closely.


Quoting Frank Rich's - The greatest story ever sold.

"In what may have been the single most reavealing paragraph anyone has reported about the bush adminastration, the author Ron Suskind, writting in The New York Times Magizine two weeks before the 2004 election, recounted a conversation with a presidentail aide who spoke sarcasticlly of the media and their, "reality-based community." The aide informed Suskind with great condescention that, a " judicious study of discernible reality" is "not the way the world works anymore." The aide explained, "We are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you study that reality, -judiciously as you will, -we will act again, creating other realities, which you can study too. and that's how things will sort out. We're histories actors...and you, all of you, will be left to study what we do."

The world is a different place now then it was fifty years ago. There are some frightening things taking place and we must be mentally prepared for it. The problem is not that no one will tell us that things in this country are changing. The problem is that they will teach us to be afraid of it and tell us whose to blame for it.. It's the Gays or the Blacks or the Mexicans. The Jews or the Muslims or the Terrorists. They're the ones who have made this country change...get them!

The sad truth is...we did it. We all did it. And I understand why. There are a lot of things going on. Disease, poverty, terror. The counrty was changing and we were afraid. And in our panic we let our fear rob us of our common sence. We allow hatred and ignorence to control our descsions. People are so quick to blame the countries problems on anyone different. No one wants to accept the responsibility. The simple truth is this, no social group ruined american, american's ruined america. No amount of finger pointing will fix that.

This country was supposed to be the first world country. The world came here, and now it whats to tear it's self apart.

I asked a friend today, if he thought that this country was due for a revolt in the next 30 or so years? Would we be drawn into a civil conflict to prevent this country from becoming what we have worked so hard to prevent, an evil empire? His answer was...quick, and so completely correct it was terrifing. He said, " Nope, we're too lazy. It will happen without a fight. He was right.


After all the hype and propaganda being shouted in the world today, all the hate being spat by religous and govermental leaders, I wonder, are we that far away from the world protrayed in V for Vendetta? A country controled by fear and brutality. A country where racial minorities, jews, musilams, homosexuals, along with any "potential security threat" to society are taken from their homes, imprisoned with out trial, tortured, and killed in the name of homeland security.


I am reminded for a quote I read a long time ago.
First they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me,... and by that time there was no one left to speak up.

(Rev. Martain Neimoller-1936)


I'm certain some of the population out there is hopeing this will happen. They feel the that these "disedents" represent a plauge on the world. A cancer, that should be cut away from the body and burned. It is easy for people to feel this way, when they let their fear overrun their compassion.

They would do well to remember from the words of Rev. Martin Neimoller. If we give them the power to come to take people away, they won't stop when we want them to. What if, after we give them this power, they suddenly descided that the italians, or the irsh, or the baptists represent a threat to national security. It's easy to condem a social group when it dosen't include your mother. your brother or your grandfather. The only way to prevent this type of horror is not to let it begin, because once it begins there is only one end, and it shames us all.

This people are not cancers. They are not a plauge. They are living, breathing, loving, people.
They are not the enemy. They were not sent here by the forces of evil to destroy us. They are us. They are you and me. They are your mother, your brother and your grandfather.

If, in our collective fear, we allow ourselves to forget our humanity, evil has already won.
Fear is the tool evil will use to keep us a bay. We must learn to let go of our fear. It is the cancer that will kill us all. Fear is a plauge on the world, changing the different into the dangerous, turning passion into prejudice and paving the road for hatred to run rament.

After reading this page. I hope you will remember how to read between the lines. I hope you will remember how to cut away the rhetoric and propaganda and find the truth of the world. All that's needed is to find the courage, the heart, not to deny the truths you uncover in the world and in your life.

I have revised Rev. Neimoller's statement. I wrote it for those left who will not go gentle, for all those still capable of free thought, and for all those who have died in past and in hope for the future.

I am not a Homosexual, but if they come for them, I will speak up,
I am not a Jew, but if they come for them, I will speak up.
I am not a Muslim, but if they come for them, I will speak up.
I am not a racial minority, but if they come for them, I will speak up.
I am not a terriost, but if in their search they will steal our liberty, I will speak up.
And when the day arrives that they come for me,
Maby I won't be the only one left to speak up.


Our lives our measured by inches, don't give up a single one.

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