V for Vendetta

Was very good indeed, just like Mads have said before.

It was to some extent what happened in France a few weeks ago. Lower scale it goes without saying, but it was about taking the power as people within non democratic means, I figure? We somehow re-made history by having a whole government to back off to scratch a law which was so obviously unjust.

In some way it felt a bit like seeing loads of subliminal images which were already burried in our media-bombed brains. From 9.11 to Abu Graib, from London's tube bombings to explicit references to Hitler's dictatorial regime, from Orwell's 1984 to the great use of televisual parodies protecting democracy and your right to speak and express ideas (they cannot die, while you can!), all of those explicit references were impressive.

'It is not for the people to fear their government, but for the government to fear the people'.

My only doubtful remark was: What does it say about the American cinematographic industry when a movie illustrating such subversive ideas (Revolution! Massive protests! Overthrow the political elite! Coup D'etat!) is produced by Warner Bros. ? It's either a really good sign (speech-related rights are protected and we are still free to make movies with not so subtle allusions to the political chaos we currently find ourselves in) or a really bad one (the recuperation and instrumentalisation of revolutionary ideas for the box office is raging).

I came back home yesterday night and rushed to find my Rage Against the Machine CD [/activist cliché].