V for President Bush is a fucking dick

Before going to see V For Vendetta yesterday, we listened to Ebert and Roepper's take on the movie. They liked it, but gave the very politically correct assessment that the movie's conclusions and opinions were rather convoluted. Ebert was confused as to whether they meant the current administration (do you notice how no one in the media has the balls to call out the President and his cronies by name?), Hitler or if it was just a retelling of 1984. Roepper was less diplomatic, but more wrong, in saying it was Hitler and the Nazi's whom the Wachowski Brothers attacked.

They were both oh so wrong. Thank God.

The Wachowski's set up a plot set in the past, present and possible future. They keep Alan Moore's setting (England) and in so doing add even more complexity to their Bush bashing.

V For Vendetta shows an alter-England in the future run by a Bush/Hitler rightie demon who preys on his subjects, living off their fear. What is called "America's war" (which you can only assume is the "war on terror") has destroyed the country, leaving it in drought, disease and civil war. But you can't be naive enough to think that's all they mean.

The movie's fascist leader, Adam Sutler is Bush, is Hitler, and is Big Brother. He manipulates the media with everything from bombings to the Avian Flu to keep people scared. And he calls the movie's "freedom fighter" a terrorist.

My favorite line in the movie goes something like, "People do not need to fear its government, the government needs to fear its people." That's a direct statement to the people in this country who buy Bush's constant lying and truth manipulation. Consider: there are already movie "critics" admonishing the film for condoning terrorism.

V for Vendetta's a warning to everyone to wake up and stop worrying about anything other than righting the ship in America. Their setup allows for a nice universality (this could be any country in the world) their exaggerations aren't that far from the truth (the media manipulation, cultivating of biological weapons for control and monitoring systems) and it's an enjoyable film.

Granted, the U.S. isn't ultimately in that bad of shape--Bush will be gone soon enough. But if we have let Bush get away with all he has gotten away with, what's to stop someone even worse. And that's why the Wachowski brothers employed the ambiguity that plagued poor Ebert.

Unfortunately I don't think people will get it. No one has or wants any sort of critical thinking ability in this culture of excess. And those that do (me included) aren't doing shit about it. At least the Wachowskis made this movie. Let's hope they're not crucified in the media as terror mongers, arrested, tortured and executed.