I am shocked by how terribly distorted V for Vendetta and the Remember Remember poem has become. How an inherently revolutionary movie and event, with organized violence as it’s modem for change, can be misconstrued into an American liberal battle cry to “GET OUT AND VOOOOTEEEE” is beyond me.
*edit - I’ll probably rewatch the movie and read the comic soon just to see if it holds up, as I’m hearing some solid criticisms from the comments below. I didn’t mean this to be a pro V for Vendetta post where I fetishize the movie, more just saying it’s very clearly a revolutionary film (even if it’s method in bringing about revolution is trash) and liberals still found a way to make it about voting and operating under the rules they are given in this system. That’s all :)
That definitely makes sense to me and I’m sure if I rewatched it I would come to similar conclusions. Haven’t seen it in a while.
Like I said above, it was less a pro-VfV post and more just pointing out how even openly revolutionary movies and media (regardless of the method) can be misconstrued by liberals in their analysis. Like the post about Star Wars and how it inspired that lib to VOOTE HARDERRR type of thing. Just thought it was funny.