Shallow and oversimplifying

Rating: Null/10 (30 April 2006)

At the risk of sounding controversial, I will honestly say that I hated this film, and I consider it shallow, annoying and presenting an oversimplified, completely false message. And the message is basically that conservatism leads to fascism. The comic book on which the film was based was supposed to be written at the time Margaret Thatcher became the prime minister in England and the conservative party won the election. The key scenes for the film's message are those that mention the chancellor as "deeply religious member of the conservative party", and the completely unnecessary homosexual episode, showing homosexuals as being hated and oppressed by the new government. Then there is the Finch's monologue in which he suddenly gets to see everything what is happening now as a logical chain of past events. The movie is deeply ideological and completely false in that. Not only Conservatists' did not endangered liberty, rights, etc., but the fact is that all major homicides in the history of mankind were the consequences of ideas that were on the opposite side to conservative ones. The homicides I have in mind are for example (1) the killing of people of Wandea in France at the time of French Revolution (practically a taboo subject, described in a great book by Reynald Secher), (2) the anti-religious terror in Spain in 1936, (3)-(4) Hitler's and Stalin's homicides, both were the enemies of the Church and even religion. Why don't they make a good and wise film about those events, some of the being still obscure?