I can see no complaints

Rating: 10/10 (9 September 2006)

I'm a very passive movie watcher. I have seen many films and I have seen one film many times. V for Vendetta forced me to stop being passive and make a stand. Too many times I've read reviews on IMDb and have sat there agreeing or sucking my teeth in disagreement but now on the third and very critical viewing of V I can see no wrong. I first saw V 6 months ago and it has had this effect that I no longer just sit in meetings umm-ing and err-ing about proposals offered. I no longer sit in front of looming problems with this laissez-faire attitude of well ... it will sort itself out in the end. I began to stand up and I began to take more 'positive action' in things around me. And yes - I did oppose some things that people proposed and although my actions were in no way violent they became actions against the flow of the recent PC "If you're not with us, you're against us" attitude that has been a strong influence on our common society recently. V for Vendetta is a brilliantly timed film. It shows how the present media abuse the 'fear' card and how easily the common man(/woman) are taken in by that media. It shows how much power the media really has. Anyone of you reading this who works for any media organisation and who has seen V for Vendetta, please look in that mirror and take stock. Could you not be doing a better job? In the same way that the Atomic bomb site in Hiroshima shows what does happen when an enormous bomb gets dropped on a city, V for Vendetta shows what happens when a censored press just toes the line of the governing body - People should not be afraid of the government ... The government should be afraid of their people.