Reply #6: my thoughts [View All]

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I didn't want to go see it at first, because I heard from some of my buddies that it was a very watered down version of the comic book.

But my girlfriend convinvced me go to see it with her, since it was playing just a block away from my apartment.

Excellent movie. For the most part, things were changed to make it more relevant to today. Although the whole romantic vibes between V and Evey was a little goofy.

I thought it was an amazing movie. There were actually people in the theater clapping for V at certain times. It was very inspiring.

I think that if the people of this country rise up, it won't be through bombs, although it may be violenty. I'm friends with a bunch of "radicals" who would like to see a very different form of government (if any at all). But they prefer a mass peaceful/forceful but non-deadly way. I think that at the ending, when all of the people took it to the streets, is the ideal. Hundreds of thousands of people in the streets is going to be more effective than one person with a bomb.

We can be militant without being violent. To be the most effective as a movement, we need to find somethign in between the non-confrontational anti-war rallies that come off as more of a pep rally than an actual anti-war rally and violence. There is a way to be taken seriously without hurting anybody, I'm just not sure what the best methods are exactly.

My favorite part of the movie was when he took over the television room and talked to the people directly.

The way the media is portrayed in V is very striking when compared to ours. Watching CNN the ast 24 hours since I've seen the movie, I've just seen so many straight examples. Here in Minneapolis, we had a significantly larger anti-war protest than a year ago. I'm not sure what the numbers are, I'm terrible at estimating. 2,000 people maybe. But of course, the headline for the anti-war protests today, before any in America had even taken place, was that the anti-war demos were "smaller than last year" using a rally in Sydney Australia as an example, and completely ignoring what's going on in America.